Today on Too Opinionated we sit down with Parminder Singh Mangat or director/screenwriter Surinder Singh about their upcoming TV series And They Occupied Me!

"And They Occupied Me" shares an untold perspective about Operation Blue Star, an Indian military action that removed the Sikh Damdami Taksal leader Singh Bhindranwale and his followers from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab. The eight-episode series will take place in the days leading up to the attack, between May 25 and June 10, 1984.

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The 8-episode series will be released on Amazon VOD on October 31, for $2 an episode. The series will be available in three languages; English, Hindi and Punjabi, and will be available in all international markets.

Parminder Singh Mangat has invested more than $1M to produce the new television series, "And They Occupied Me," through his company, The Mangat Group. Mangat is a truck driver and land developer by day, and is best known for his future development of a field hockey stadium and sports complex in Glendale, Ariz. and for the sale of property to KORE Power for the new KOREplex facility in Buckeye, Ariz. Filmmaker Surinder Singh penned the script, which is based on more than 15 different survivor accounts and intelligence support. Surinder also co-directed alongside Malkiat Singh, Samar Singh Chouhan and Chen Wang. Grammy-nominated John Anthony composed the score.