I am 20

Director S.N.S.Sastry traveled all over the country India in the year 1967 & interviewed young nation's youth to make a short non-fiction documentary "I am 20".

I am 20
S.N.S.Sastry, India 1967, 18 mins

The progress of any country can be shown in different ways & here the director speaks to those who were born in the same year when independent India was born. Some interesting questions were asked about themselves, their ambition, what they feel about the progress of the country and what is to be done for the future. Their response was the mixture of irony, sarcasm, idealism, optimism & hope.

While watching this short film, I found an interesting connection with the generation gap. Nowadays we (our generation of 20s) hesitate to bond with the thinking of our previous generation because of the huge technological progress that we have made in this tech-savy era & other current issues. 

But after watching the film, I noticed a compelling fact that our past generation in the 60's era used to think exactly the same way we use to think now. After 47 years, we encounter changes in our outer appearances with different work culture (basic things remaining the same), that makes the film as relevant today as it was then.

So the question to the Indian youth of 20s (those who have seen the film & if not, I suggest you to see it first)--

If you ask yourself the same questions that were asked in the film, what comes on your mind?