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Onir’s I Am may have got rave reviews from critics, but the film is a little more special for actor Sanjay Suri. After the release of the four-episode feature, emotional Kashmiri pandits have been getting in touch with the actor over the portrayal of a Kashmiri woman, Megha, played by Juhi Chawla. Sanjay has co-produced the movie along with Onir. “Several Kashmiri pandits have got in touch with me through phone, Twitter and Facebook. They told me they can really ...

Director: Onir Cast: Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Radhika Apte, Sanjay Suri, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, and more Rating: *** Onir’s latest outing as a director is as real, raw, and entertaining as it could be. I Am, the stories of four different people weaved into one, is perhaps the most sensitively made film this so far year. I Am Megha, Abhimanyu, Omar, and Afia, are not just stories from four different backgrounds and cities, but also four different time scales. ...

Sanjay Suri’s latest production I AM is winning rave reviews. The actor, who first produced My Brother Nikhil in 2005, looks back at his journey as a producer. Three films old (My Brother Nikhil, Sorry Bhai and I AM) as producer, actor Sanjay Suri never thought of getting into production, he just got pulled into it. “It all started with My Brother Nikhil. It was a good story and we wanted to make the film but we could not find ...

Inspired by the super success of My Name Is Khan which has become a global phenomenon and is still playing internationally despite it’s release in India a year ago, even I AM would be expanding it’s horizons. Even as the film has opened to rave reviews and is one of the best critiqued affairs in last so many months, this Onir directed flick is not resting on it’s laurels and would now be marketed for global platforms. Says a close ...

The film also opened to impressive reviews back on home territory, being touted as a landmark movie of major significance –Tackling contemporary and complex issues in an unnerving yet poignant manner I AM has the industry impressed. Says acclaimed critic Taran Adarsh “ I AM is a landmark film that has four pertinent stories to tell, raises questions that haven’t been solicited before. I AM, based on true stories and bona fide incidents, entertains, engages and enriches those thirsting for ...

Onir’s I AM is not an easy movie, it’s a brave effort . The movie doesn’t shy away from the hard -hitting realities of life, explores the dark corners of our life-space which we generally try or pretend to forget. This movie is about four characters who represent suppressed and suffocated social and political structure of our society. Afia is a woman ( played by Nandita Das) who wants to be a independent single mother. Megha ( Juhi Chawla) is ...

I Am has been appreciated in film festivals abroad and has picked up the Best Film Award and Best Actress Award (Juhi Chawla) at the 13th London Asian Film Festival. But, “Festivals are secondary,” Onir insists. “The most important audience is here.” And he is hopeful. “I think people have the palette. There are enough people who want to look at our old society critically.” The film comprises four stories based on real — and sensitive — experiences. “What excites me as ...

New Delhi: After a series of Fridays after Fridays of lacklustre releases, Bollywood buffs are finally spoilt for choices. As many as four movies are vying for the viewer’s attention at the box office this weekend and viewers and critics are all praises for at least two. In the first five months of 2011, at least 31 Bollywood films have hit the silver screen but there have been only a handful of movies that had in them the ability to ...

This Friday saw the release of three low-budget movies ? Shor in the City, Chalo Dilli and I Am. Low in budget but big on impact, all three have already got the critics and trade gurus talking. The films could well be following in the footsteps of last year’s surprise, Udaan. Raj Nidimoru, the director of Shor in the City, says that all it takes to make a good film with a limited budget is to have a star cast ...

Bollywood is turning bolder and bolder every day. This is evident from a movie like ‘I Am’ released today (April 29, 2011). It’s perhaps first of its kind. The movie watchers are quite literate now to appreciate such daring subjects. The movie is all the more significant as it owes its making to societal monetary help. This is to recall that Sanjay Suri who is also acting in the movie says he approached the people on the Face Book to ...

Onir has said that in spite of his low film production costs, he is still a commercial filmmaker. The director, whose I Am series of four films released on Friday, said that filmmakers still need to think about box office revenue. Onir told Mumbai Mirror: “One needs to redefine the word commercial. If a film is made with 100 crores and recovers only half of it and on the other hand if a film is made in three crores and ...

With having donned multiple roles such as editor, screenwriter, producer and director, Onir has forayed into the Indian film industry with gusto! He has also assisted Kalpana Lajmi on Daman. It was on the sets of a documentary based on a champion swimmer from Goa who was infected with AIDS that inspired him to draft his first film My Brother Nikhil, a tale about the Goan Government’s harsh treatment meted out to AIDS patients in Goa in the ’80s along ...