Unfortunately Vismaad IT business revenues and profit have taken a deep dip in last two years as a result we were unable to plough in funds from our business profits and had to rely fully on Sangat support. 

Even with limited resources we could publish a decent number of videos during past one year, which include: 

• Published on YouTube
  • 5 Videos "Punjabi Moral Stories"
  • 3 Videos "Learning Punjabi Vocabulary with Simran Kaur"
  • 2 Jot Singh Videos "History of Darbar Sahib series"
  • 3 Punjabi Rhyme Videos
• Ready to Publish on YouTube
  • 4 Jot Singh Videos "History of Darbar Sahib series"

SikhVille Youtube channel views and subscriptions have increased considerably during that past one year. As a result YouTube revenues have increased from an average of $300 per month to $1200 per month.

We wish to take YouTube channel revenue to minimum $5000 per month. Till such time the Sangat's dasvandh support is crucial for our projects. We look forward to Sangat's continued support on this Dasvnadh Network page. 

Humbly 
Sukhwinder Singh
Founder
Vismaad and SikhVille

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾ। ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ।

Following Animated videos are now published on YouTube:

1. Moral Stories:
   • ਚੰਗੀ ਗੱਲ ਮੰਨੋ (Changi Gull Manno) link: https://youtu.be/QsliG6qH7yk  
   • Ekta Vich Shakti | ਏਕਤਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਸ਼ਕਤੀ (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਕਹਾਣੀ) | Power of Unity - Moral Story link: https://youtu.be/lcfSbI1L8a4
2. Punjabi Rhymes
   • Tortoise and the Hare race | ਕੱਛੂ ਅਤੇ ਖਰਗੋਸ਼ |

Please share these exciting updates on your SM accounts and with contacts. 
Our sincere thanks for the support. 

Regards
Team SikhVille

Sukhwinder Singh

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾ। ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ।

This weekend a new series of Panjabi motion comics is launched on SikhVille.
Simple engaging stories, soothingly narrated for young kids. The creative illustrsations in these motion comics make learning daily life Panjabi vocabulary a fun. Each story comes with digital resources to read the stories along and pratice the learning with worksheets.

Please watch our first story on the following url and also share it widely for benefit of all, particularly with families and friends having young children. 

https://youtu.be/xcdHT38xqik

About the 1st Episode:

ਇਕ ਦਿਨ ਸਿਮਰਨ ਕੌਰ ਅਪਨੇ ਪਿਤਾਜੀ ਨਾਲ ਸਾਈਕਲ ਚਲਾਉਣ ਗਈ। ਰਾਹ ਵਿਚ ਉਹਨੇ ਅਪਨੇ ਪਿਤਾ ਜੀ ਨਾਲ ਗਲਾਂ ਕਰਦਿਆਂ ਬਹੁਤ ਕੁਝ ਨਵਾਂ ਸਿਖਿਆ। ਸਾਈਕਲਿੰਗ ਟ੍ਰੈਕ ਵਲ ਜਾਂਦਿਆਂ ਉਹਨਾਂ ਦੀ ਕਾਰ ਨੂੰ ਇਕ ਰੇਲ ਫਾਟਕ ਤੇ ਰੁਕਣਾ ਪਿਆ ਜੋ ਸਿਮਰਨ ਕੌਰ ਲਈ ਇਕ ਹੋਰ ਸਿੱਖਣ ਦਾ ਮੌਕਾ ਬਣਿਆ! ਕਿਵੇ? ਜਾਨਣ ਲਈ ਇਹ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਦੇਖੋ।

Rich and exciting related learning resources:
Read along: https://sikhville.org/video-stories/SIkhville-Story.pdf
Worksheet: http://www.sikhville.org/pdf/new/Name-o-Vegetables.pdf

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾ। ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ।

As we mentioned in our last update we had gone slow after we lost $350,000 at box-office release of "Bhai Taru Singh Ji" movie. As a result we were forced to layoff our animation team which we had so fondly nurtured over 15 years.

After lying low for more than two years we realized that we have to come out of despair as the cause is more important and we should leave the worries to Akal Purakh, after all we had nothing when we first took the plunge in 2004 to create "Sahibzadey: A Saga of Valor & Sacrifice". Now at least we have one very important assest with us: "experience"!! and more importantly a large network of families who have immensely benefitted from SikhVille projects and stand with us strongly.

As you have noticed we recently activated our animation team, thank God we didn't let go the top 3 from our team. With these very talented and dedicated small team we can always rebuild the capabilities to produce animation at the same levels as before.

Over next few months we'll be producing:

A new season of "Jot Deep": Jot Singh has arrived in Amritsar. He'll met a very knwoledgable Nihang Singh ji in Darbar Sahib parikarma, who told him the story behind calling a very old old tree "Ber Baba Budha ji". This episode will soon be uploaded on SikhVille YouTube channel.
Darbar Sahib 100s of historical events associated with it and majority have a unique lanmark associated with it within the precints. We plan to create 15-20 episodes based on each such landmark. A great way to tell the history of Darbar Sahib. 

Punjabi motion comics with learning: We have embarked on a new series which has Simran Kaur, 8-10 years old, as the lead character. She has a todeller brother, Fateh Singh. Simran Kaur is bright and lively girl whon loves seeing places and learning new lessons. She is very fond of Punjabi. Kids will learn a lot of Punjabi with Simran Kaur as start living with her. Firsy episode shall be live on YouTube.com/SikhVille before the Dasvandh Week 2020 starts. 

Please continue your support and encourage at least your 2 friends or relative to sign ACH, no matter how small is the amount.
Also kindly share the YouTube.com/SikhVille link to all your acquantices and ask them to subscribe to the channel.

Guru Raakha
Sukhwinder Singh

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾ। ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ। 
Khalsa Ji
9th October, 2020 was the 300th birthday of Bhai Taru Singh ji. The Vismaad family, all the donors & volunteers included, are a blessed lot for the sewa of making the legendary movie on life & sacrifice of the great martyr who is iconic if one is looking for inspiration to live Sikhi in letter & spirit. 

First released in the 2010, the movie was rereleased in 2018 with enhanced animation & cinematic experience, including glimpses of worldclass 3D CGI Animation. We had great expectations from the theatrical release across 150 Cinemas in US, Canada, UK, Australia & India. The Movie production & Distribution had costed $355,000 but unfortunately had a very poor run on Box Office and yielded only $35,000 in revenue.

To commemorate 300th Birthdate of Bhai Taru Singh ji a YouTube Premiere was organized on 9th October which was a decent success, having crossed 65000 views as you read this update. https://youtu.be/cDrgvEudoKQ 

Even after having watched the movie multiple times during all the years since 2010, the year 2D version was released, people are watching it again on YouTube and feeling the same vibes and inspirations. That's power of Bhai Sahib's jiwan that you don't get tired listening or watching his story over and over again. 

Please watch the movie wth your family and share with all in your freinds and family. 

Thanks again for your continued support and putting faith on us. Please keep us in your prayers so that the sewa can continue. 

Gur Raakha
Sukhwinder Singh
Vismaad 

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾ। ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ।

Dear Khalsa ji

We appreciate your continued support for work we do at Vismaad for benefit of our younger generations. We pray good health for you and all your near & dear ones. May Waheguru ji bless all in these trying times and keep all safe. 

As you all are aware the cinematic release of movie "Bhai Taru Singh Ji" was a huge debacle. Only $35000 revneue was collected against total budget of close to $350,000. One major casualty was we lost 80% of the animation team. 

The result was that production got hugely impacted and last 1.5 years very little content could be uploaded on SikhVille.org. The team though has continusoly worked on new content and episodes of Jot Deep, rhymes and some other random content is ready but we couldn't afford post production (music, editing, special effects, etc), as it's outsourced. 

Your recurring donations are accumulating, only a part of it is consumed. We are trying to survive the skeletal team with some commercial projects. Once the lockdowns are lifted and things settle a bit we'll start putting efforts to finalize the content inventory sitting in our systems to publish online SikhVille YouTube channel.

We again thank you for continued faith in us and letting the recurring deposits running. I am available to for any additional information through following channels, please feel free to contact me during Pacific Time Zone.

    Cell:          +1 323.561.5546
    WhatsApp: +91 9814180354
    email:        [email protected]

Ever indebted to Waheguru ji & Sikh Sangat for blessing this enormous sewa and also making us capable for it.

With prayers for all humanity
ਸਭੇ ਜੀਅ ਸਮਾਲਿ ਅਪਣੀ ਮਿਹਰ ਕਰੁ ॥
ਅੰਨੁ ਪਾਣੀ ਮੁਚੁ ਉਪਾਇ ਦੁਖ ਦਾਲਦੁ ਭੰਨਿ ਤਰੁ ॥
ਅਰਦਾਸਿ ਸੁਣੀ ਦਾਤਾਰਿ ਹੋਈ ਸਿਸਟਿ ਠਰੁ ॥
ਲੇਵਹੁ ਕੰਠਿ ਲਗਾਇ ਅਪਦਾ ਸਭ ਹਰੁ ॥
ਨਾਨਕ ਨਾਮੁ ਧਿਆਇ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਕਾ ਸਫਲੁ ਘਰੁ ॥੧॥

Humbly
Sukhwinder Singh