I Am

Apr 29, 2011

1h 46m

★ 6.5

Overview

I Am is a 2011 Indian anthology film by Onir. It consists of four short films: "Omar", "Afia", "Abhimanyu", and "Megha". Each film shares the common theme of fear and each is also based on real life stories. The film was financed by donations from more than 400 different people around the world, many of whom donated through social networking sites like Facebook. There are four stories but the characters are interwoven with each story. "Abhimanyu" is based on child abuse, "Omar" on gay rights, "Megha" is about Kashmiri Pandits and "Afia" deals with sperm donation. I Am was released with subtitles in all regions as six different languages are spoken in the film: Hindi, English, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Kashmiri.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

I Am Trailers

Cast

Jay Gowda

Rahul Bose

Afia Kidwai

Nandita Das

Megha

Juhi Chawla Mehta

Abhimanyu

Sanjay Suri

Rubina

Manisha Koirala

Omar

Arjun Mathur

Natasha

Radhika Apte

Purab Kohli

Anurag Basu

Manav Kaul

Rushad Rana

Madhu Sagar

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