It was the dichotomy of today’s youth that I wanted to capture and reflect. There is a mix of apathy and activism, conformity and the need to stand out — I wanted to talk about each of those stereotypes,” says filmmaker Agneya Singh, whose debut feature M Cream will hit screens later this month. Singh, who is political journalist Seema Mustafa’s son, is a Delhi boy who studied filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts. But, it was his early years spent hobnobbing with his Delhi University friends that shaped the idea of the movie.

Burning the film festival circuit since 2014, the movie, produced by Agniputra Films, has gathered a lot of awards for the young filmmaker — it won the Grand Prize for Best Feature Film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Best Foreign Feature at the Indie Spirit Film Festival, among many others. “Those awards were the step we needed to bring the movie to India and release it. You know how it is with small-budget movies. But it has done well at festivals abroad, and managed to get a release, but in limited theatres and only in the metros,” he says.