EMPOWER CHILDREN TO PROTECT NATURE FROM GETTING DESTROYED BY US.
26th April 2010. I return to Chandigarh After twelve years to inaugurate the INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL organised by the RYAN institute. Coming from Mumbai the first thing that strikes you is that you can breathe the air and your eyes are greeted with greenery. I [...]

The I AM team with director Onir, Producer actor Sanjay Suri, Actors Manisha Koirala, Rahul Bose and Purab Kohli inaugurated the first Mumbai international queer film festival at PVR Juhu on the 22nd of April 2010.

I AM is about people with fractured lives and broken dreams yet they all dream. The Film shows people often do not know what’s right or do the right thing….but in their vulnerability and brokenness is where their beauty lies.

Every morning I wake up and see the Spanish guitar I bought from Hobbner’s years ago standing in the corner of my bedroom. It’s become like a habit and I lie to myself every morning and tell myself that tomorrow I am going to pick it up . …
Having lived my entire childhood in Bhutan [...]

Souvik Gupta – “wanted to contribute something to Omar’s team but couldn’t do so except for a small, not so great poem from my end as an ode to ‘Omar’ and the cause behind it”

mere seene main ik tukda uska hai ik dukhda…poochta hai woh kya hai meri-teri shaksiyat
I am,me,myself…main hoon,main hoon,main hoon,main hi main hoon

As we near the finish of our journey called “I AM”  people from various parts of the country and abroad continue to join us and lend helping hands. The latest member to the contributors list is Prasad Babu from Port Blair, Andaman Islands. It’s great to see Andamans on the ‘I AM’ map
Here’s [...]

Here’s what Sonia (Harbridge) from Oman had to say about ‘how she got to know about I AM and what made her contribute’

I heard about “I AM” after my husband James read a magazine interview with Sanjay Suri which mentioned ANTICLOCK FILMS.
When I then read the on-line synopsis of ABHIMANYU, it struck me as a [...]

Kashmir is very dear to me. I can sense it in my persona. I have always cherished its memories and anything that allows me to reconnect is always a panacea.

Here’s what Nabeel Qureshi a friend from Pakistan who volunteered to edit the first promo for Omar had to say about the film

When I heard about “I am Omar” from Onir, I realized this thought-provoking topic could help bring light to a serious social issue and may even make an impact in breaking a taboo. [...]