Recent Highlights
All Stories for Onir
Indian directors pay glowing tributes to French-Swiss filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard
Chintan Girish Modi • 2 years agoThe films of French-Swiss filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard have made a profound impression on Indian filmmakers. Onir, Samina Mishra, Rafeeq Ellias, Samarth Mahajan, and Rahul Roye talk about what they have learnt from Godard’s cinematic contributions.
Sama: The world of contemporary art in India and Italy
Fp Staff • 3 years agoSama is a film about contemporary art from India and Italy and it looks at resonances in both countries in a way trajectory of how old and the new seek together
Karan Johar at 50: Revisiting filmmaker's work that often challenge our expectations of queerness in cinema
Chintan Girish Modi • 3 years agoKaran Johar attempts to "accommodate queerness in Indian culture" through modes of expression like “gossip, humour, innuendo, ambiguity and importantly, with the refusal to clearly it”.
How Badhaai Do presents an alternative to institutionalized homophobia with Rajkummar Rao's gay cop
Chintan Girish Modi • 3 years agoBadhaai Do captures the nuances of the emotional terrain that a gay cop would have to navigate in real life
'An attempt to strangulate an artiste's voice': Onir opens up on Defence Ministry's objection to his true-life story of a gay Major
Takshi Mehta • 3 years ago"You’re humiliating the queer community by saying that the queer community is not ‘fit enough’ to serve the nation because you’re being judged not by your skillset, but by something that is nobody’s business, which is your sexuality," says Onir.
Onir to helm series based on 2019 Pulwama attack for SonyLIV
• 3 years agoTitled Pulwama Key No. 1026, Onir's SonyLIV series is based on author and journalist Rahul Pandita's book The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur
IFFM 2021: Richa Chadha, Onir to head jury panel for short film competition at festival
• 4 years agoFilmmaker Onir inks deal with Penguin Random House; memoir to hit stands in 2022
• 4 years agoThe book, to be published under Penguin's Viking imprint, will be co-written by Onir and his sister, film editor-screenwriter Irene Dhar Malik.
Onir announces sequel to his LGBTQ film I Am; Sanjay Suri will co-produce
• 4 years agoTitled We Are, the film will chronicle four LGBTQ-themed stories from different corners of the South Asian subcontinent.
Kabir Khan, Imtiaz Ali, Rima Das, Onir to collaborate on short film compilation, slated to premiere at IFFM 2021
• 5 years agoThe directors will work with selected filmmaking teams from Victoria, Australia, to mentor and then shoot the short films.