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Director Onir’s “I Am” has been selected for the feature film line-up at the Kandy International Film Festival starting Wednesday in Sri Lanka. “Congratulations to all of US #I AM selected at the KANDY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, SRI LANKA @Purab_Kohli @mathurarjun(sic),” Onir posted on his micro-blogging site twitter. The director delved into multiple topics and wove four different stories about the plight of Kashmiri pandits, gay issues, paedophelia and single motherhood in his people-funded movie. A host of stars like ...

Reaffirming the popular notion that art imitates life, Onir is planning to make his next film on corruption. The director had started it as one of the four tracks in I Am, but later decided to turn it into a full-fledged feature. “I realised that corruption is a much bigger issue and so, it could not be encapsulated into one short story,” he reasons., adding that the plot was inspired by someone he knows well. “The topic has generated a ...

Director Onir is fulfilling his life long dream of visiting Nepal. Onir is on a travelling spree these days and is in Kathmandu enjoying the beautiful weather and his favourite momos nowadays. Having left for Nepal on Saturday, the first thing Onir did was eat lots of momos. He tells us, “Eating momos is like being in heaven. I can survive on an all day momo diet.” Onir, who’s film “I Am” was also released in Nepal also spent a ...

he film deals with issues often brushed under the carpet, but these issues need to be discussed,” said Manisha Koirala addressing the audiences at the screening of I AM, a film by Onir screened at the Rastriya Nach Ghar, Jamal on Sunday. The film that released last month stars Nandita Das, Purab Kholi, Manisha Koirala, Juhi Chawla, Sanjay Suri and Rahul Bose, and narrates four different stories. I AM AFIA is the story of a single woman who is on ...

I love to travel in a free-flowing manner. So, I don’t ever go for packaged tours and to typical touristy destinations. I like to discover a place slowly, rough it out and get to know the people living there. I often combine my travel with work. I usually travel a lot to screen my films, and when I am there I spend some more days discovering the city and nearby places. As for how I decide on the place, it ...

His latest film “I Am” has been screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide and managed to bag prestigious awards like Jury & Audience Award at Montreal (Image+ Nation Film Festival), Audience Choice Award at the 20th Milan International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, NETPAC Award for Best in Asian Cinema and Special Jury Mention at the 15th International Film Festival of Kerala 2010. A passionate filmmaker, Onir believes films are made to tell stories of people and their lives. ...

Filmmaker Onir is known for sensitive stories. And the My Brother Nikhil director is also fond of good storytellers. “I love to read about relationships as most of my films are on that subject,” says Onir. He tells us more about his favourite pastime: An open chapter I love reading. As a youngster, I was a voracious reader but unfortunately, that isn’t the story anymore. I just can’t make time for it. Some of the books that I read recently ...

Kathmandu, May 31: Still portrayed as buffoons, aliens and despicable people by their own silver screen story-tellers, Nepal’s burgeoning gay community is now hoping Bollywood’s path-breaking films like “I Am” and “My Brother Nikhil” will give Nepali filmmakers the right perspective one day. Bollywood film director Anirban Dhar, whose “I Am”, starring Nepal’s Manisha Koirala and Bollywood’s Rahul Bose, Juhi Chawla, Nandita Das and Sanjay Suri, released in India last month, is arriving in Kathmandu for a special screening of ...

Mumbai, May 30 (IBNS): Bollywood director Onir’s `I Am’ won the award for the Best Narrative Feature Film at the 2nd Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. The closing ceremony of India’s biggest queer festival was held at Cinemax-Versova, Andheri (West) on Sunday evening. Accepting the award, Onir said, “Thank you Kashish, this is a very special award for three reasons. This is the first time I am getting an award in Mumbai. Secondly, I am happy to receive this ...

Director Onir’s ‘I Am’ won the award for the Best Narrative Feature Film at the 2nd Kashish-Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. The closing ceremony of India’s biggest queer festival was held at Cinemax-Versova, Andheri (West) on Sunday evening. Accepting the award, Onir said, “Thank you Kashish, this is a very special award for three reasons. This is the first time I am getting an award in Mumbai. Secondly, I am happy to receive this award from Sai-ji with whom I ...

I AM wins the best narrative feature at the 2nd Kashish Film Festival, Mumbai 2011.

Filmmaker Onir on Tuesday in Mumbai urges people not to buy pirated DVDs as he feels piracy is killing cinema. “Again someone just messaged me from Delhi about how he loved ‘I AM’. I am sad because he expects me to be happy after watching a pirated copy (sic),” Onir wrote on microblogging site Twitter. “It’s sad when you and I watch pirated DVDs. Corruption starts within us, by buying pirated DVDs you are killing cinema,” he posted.