Director Onirban readies for the last of this I AM Series

Onir is on a hattrick! Having signed on Anurag Kashyap and Nandita Das for his I Am films, he has now convinced Anurag Basu to act too.

Onir is on a hattrick! Having singed on Anurag Kashyap and Nandita Das for his I am Films…

After tossing between Rani Mukherji, Bipasha Basu and Nandita Das for a lead role in I am Afia, Onir Nair has at last come to a decision. And the role goes to…Nandita Das!

Exit Kalki Koechlin. Enter Nandita Das. A change of story by director Onir has meant that the Shubho Mahurat actress turned Firaaq director, and not the Dev D debutante, would come to Calcutta to shoot for I Am Afia.

It’s easy to imagine a director driving around the city, scouting for locations, stopping by an old North Kolkata gali and being overwhelmed by the sheer drama of the place

Purab has just come on board the I am… series to be directed by Onir. He will be a part of the film Afia with Nandita, who incidentally has lost oodles of weight (not that she was ever plump) and is looking awesome.

The director has cast Purab Kohli as a sperm donor for I Am Afia, a short film based on Kolkata’s murky world of sperm donation that has Nandita Das playing the lead…

Furthermore, Indian film Director Onir will be present to receive an award for his forthcoming film I am based on the violations of human rights which will also be previewed starring Bollywood stars Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala & many others.

Bengali film-maker Onir’s intent in continuing to make socially relevant films is quite appreciable. If reports are true, then Onir’s upcoming film (tentatively titled ‘Afia’) would be about the sperm-donation and the mafia which operates in this area.