Butter Chicken to Go

Poulet au beurre pour emporter

Prajj
2026 | 11 min 48 s
Documentary
 Hindi and English with English subtitles

Delivered to your door. Conditions apply.*

Three South Asian delivery drivers brave Toronto’s winter dinner rush, zipping through slushy, frigid streets. Through intimate portraits of the drivers, Butter Chicken to Go exposes a deep contradiction: a country that eagerly consumes South Asian cuisine while increasingly excluding the people whose labour sustains it. What does it mean to belong when your presence is both essential and contested?

Produced as part of REDEFINED, a TIFF and NFB initiative supporting emerging Canadian and Indigenous filmmakers aged 30 and under.

Logline

It’s winter in Toronto. During the evening dinner rush, South Asian delivery drivers navigate the city streets, reflecting on the unique journeys that brought each of them here—stories that reveal a universal quest for belonging.

A National Film Board of Canada production in collaboration with the Toronto International Film Festival

Credits (TBD)

Butter Chicken to Go

Director and Writer
Prajj

Producer
Kate Vollum

Executive Producer
John Christou

Featuring
Aditya
Vish
Ameer

Director of Photography
Liam Higgins

Editor
Prajj Rajawat

Sound Recordist
Huan Nguyen

Community Consultation
Deval Soni

Line Producer
Stéphanie Quevillon

Production Administrator
Justine Chevarie-Cossette

Production Manager
Vaishnavi Sambhus

Senior Production Coordinator
Andrew Martin-Smith

Production Assistants & Drivers
Q’mal Labad-Workman
Trevonte Tomlinson

Location Manager & Scout
Manidipa Neogi

Additional Cinematography
Prajj

1st Assistants Camera
Daniel Poirier
Aiden Carter

Key Grips
Robert Wharry
John Perrin

Digital Imaging Technician
Q’mal Labad-Workman

Technical Project Coordinator
Julien Archambault

Post-Production Supervisor
Vaishnavi Sambhus

Technician, Digital Editing
Phillip Hawkes

Technical Director
Frank Nadeau

Technician Production & Post-Production
Kevin Riley

Set Photography
Elana Emer

Title Design & Credits
Josh Kaplan
Alain Ostiguy

Hindi Translation
Deval Soni
Power of Babel

Colour Services
Artjail

Colourist
Clinton Homuth

Colour Assistant
Austin Tang Producer

Colour Services Producer
Alison Kinnear

Online Editor
Luca Di Gioacchino

Coordinator, Versions and Accessibility
Sylvie Azoulay

French Translation and Subtitling
Difuze

Audio Post-Production
Oso Audio

Sound Engineer & Music Composer
Lisa Yafalian

Oso Audio Creative Director
Daenen Bramberger Producer

Oso Audio Producer
Alyssa Sinclair

Additional Music
“Flying Cars”
by antronsongs
Music and Lyrics by
Anton Lipovetsky

Archival / Archive
Opening audio recording from NASA Apollo 17 Mission

Programming Manager
Brigid Tierney

Senior Marketing Advisor
Laurianne Désormiers

Marketing Project Manager
Geneviève Bérard

Marketing Coordinator
Michelle Rozon

Director, Communications and Public Relations
Magalie Boutin

Senior Advisor, Communications Strategist
Justine Baillargeon

Publicists
Jennifer Mair
Sophie St-Pierre

Legal Advisor Conseil juridique
Peter Kallianiotis

Toronto International Film Festival
an initiative of TIFF Next Wave

Chief Programming Officer
Anita Lee

Vice President, Public Programming
Keith Bennie

Manager, Next Wave
Ikoro Sekai

Selection Committee
Ollie Coombs
Emma Cheuk
Nara Wrigglesworth
Winnie Wang

Special Thanks
Matthew Rankin
Gavin Baird
James Ramlal
Rahul A
Allison Cheung
Serve Poblete
Kai Trotz-Motayne
Kourtney Jackson
Lee’s Dumpling House
Sizzler Kebab
Tacos El Asador
Rene & Anthony Gonzalez
Revolt Camera
2D House
145 Wellington Street West
55 Maitland Street
60 St Clair Avenue West
299 Campbell Avenue

Media Relations

Jennifer Mair
NFB Publicist – Toronto
C.: 416-436-0105
j.mair@nfb.ca | @NFB_Jennifer

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