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Film:I Am (A) Director:Onir Cast: Sanjay Suri, Juhi Chawla, Nandita Das, Rahul Bose, Abhimanyu Singh, Arjun Mathur, Shernaz Patel, Radhika Apte, Purab Kohli, Manisha Koirala Rating:**** I Am is a resonant chamber piece for its talented actors and possibly the finest cinematic study of modern Indian relationships to come along in quite some time. The film’s gratifying, unaffected handling of drama is incendiary. Director Onir weaves a haunting relevance to the current political climate surrounding gay relationships — a news ...

Onir’s I AM opens with a quotation from Rabindranath Tagore’s [ Images ] Gitanjali, ‘Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high…’ underlining the purpose behind his evocative anthology. While the subject of his stories set in four different cities — Kolkata [ Images ], Srinagar [ Images ], Bengaluru [ Images ] and Mumbai [ Images ] — varies from artificial insemination, Kashmir [ Images ], child abuse and gay prostitution, they’re connected by a ...

Film: ”I AM”; Cast: Nandita Das, Purab Kohli, Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Suri, Radhika Apte, Shernaz Patel, Anurag Kashyap, Rahul Bose, Arjun Mathur and Abhimanyu Singh; Director: Onir; Rating: **** Film: ‘I AM’; Cast: Nandita Das, Purab Kohli, Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Suri, Radhika Apte, Shernaz Patel, Anurag Kashyap, Rahul Bose, Arjun Mathur and Abhimanyu Singh; Director: Onir; Rating: **** How and where does one begin to describe the infinite satisfaction of watching a film that emerges from ...

Critic’s Rating: 4 Cast: Juhi Chawla, Nandita Das, Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Suri, Rahul Bose, Anurag Kashyap, Purab Kohli, Abhimanyu Singh, Radhika Apte Direction: Onir Genre: Drama Duration: 2 hours Readers Rating: 4 1/2   Gripping social comment Story: The film is a compendium of four stories which have a common theme: the search and assertion of individual identity. Nandita Das is a single woman who wants to experience the joys of motherhood by artificial insemination. Juhi Chawla is a displaced Kashmiri pundit who returns ...

This seems like the most accomplished Friday, after a long, long time. Certain stories that were considered blasphemous, even sacrilege, that lay buried in the dark, with film-makers not wanting to touch with a bargepole, are gradually finding their way on the Hindi screen. Onir, however, attempts to narrate four different stories in I AM. The topics range from artificial insemination, child sexual abuse and homosexuality. Oh yes, Onir had always chosen the path less travelled, but with I AM, ...

How and where does one begin to describe the infinite satisfaction of watching a film that emerges from the closet with some arresting and disturbing home-truths on what goes on when the lights are off? Tiptoeing through the darkest corridors of the human heart director Onir in I Am comes up with four stories on the question of individual, sexual and geo-political identity. There are no happy beginnings or endings for any of the four protagonists in I Am. Each ...