I Am (2010 Indian film)

I Am
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Directed by	Onir
Produced by	Sanjay Suri Onir Rajesh Kumar Jain (Co Producer)
Screenplay by	Onir Urmi Juvekar Merle Kroeger
Story by	Onir Urmi Juvekar Merle Kroeger
Starring	Juhi Chawla Manisha Koirala Rahul Bose Nandita Das Arjun Mathur Pooja gandhi Sanjay Suri Anurag Kashyap Purab Kohli Shernaz Patel Radhika Apte Anurag Basu Manav Kaul Abhimanyu Singh
Music by	Amit Trivedi Vivek Phillip Rajiv Bhalla
Cinematography	Arvind Kannabiran
Edited by	Onir Irene Dhar Malik
Distributed by	Anticlock Films
Release date	18 September 2010 (2010-09-18) (I View Film Festival) 29 April 2011 (2011-04-29) (India)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

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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.

Onir first developed an idea for a short film while in Berlin, Germany. He later decided to make four shorts as he had too many ideas to fit into only one film. "Abhinmanyu" was originally written as a full-length film starring Karisma Kapoor in her comeback, but after she pulled out Onir changed the main character to a male and turned it into a short film. The shorts were shot on location in Srinagar ("Megha"), Mumbai ("Omar"), Bangalore ("Abhimanyu") and Kolkata ("Afia"). The "Afia" segment was originally intended to explore corruption in NGOs, but Onir decided to focus on sperm donation instead. During location shooting in Srinagar for the "Megha" segment, the crew was attacked by rocks and received terror threats and had to shift to Karan Nagar. Onir returned later under the guise of a documentary filmmaker to capture additional footage.