GULSHAN Grover’s latest venture has taken him towards the Tibetan cause. In the film, We Are Not Monks, Grover stars as an Indian police officer in charge of McLeodganj where the exiled Tibetan community lives.
As tough police inspector Shamsheer Singh, he is concerned with the trend of the youth getting involved with drugs and wants to go all out to tackle the problem.
The film, which has been made by a team of film school graduates Pema Dhondup, Pierre Pasler, Rajeev Ahuja and Kimberley Dukes) from across the world along with artistes from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts has already travelled across to many international film festivals.
The makers of We Are Not Monks aim to show a world the younger generation of exiled Tibetans sharply different from that usually perceived by the west. Grover, incidentally has not charged a single rupee for his work in the film.
He gives his reasons for taking up the project: am not a politician or political activist. I am an entertainer and to me first and foremost is the film and the maker. I found this to be a very contemporary script and also the team involved in making the film are all well trained and talented film people from around the world. The film deals more with the problem of exiled Tibetan youth.”
