Dreaming Big Indian Express (09 October 2010) Delhi director Nila Madhab Panda on what prompted him to make his award-winning film I Am Kalam .Ten-years ago when independent Delhi-based filmmaker Nila Madhab Panda, 37, was shooting a documentary (Stolen Childhood) in Rajasthan on the issue of the lack of childhood among homeless kids, he came across a curious incident. “I was shooting at a dhaba where I met this 10-year old boy who worked there. He would interact eagerly with tourists and slip out of the dhaba with them. There was something about his personality that resonated,” says Panda, who has finally nurtured that idea into an 87-minute feature film, I Am Kalam. The film which stars Gulshan Grover and French actor Beatrice Ordeix had its world premiere at the Marche du section of Cannes Film Festival in May. Panda is in the process of looking for a distributor in India, to enable him to release the film in the country. Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/dreaming-big/694748/