filmmaker onir is fully vaccinated and ready to get the cameras rolling on his next exciting venture titled we are the upcoming film is a sequel to his national awardwinning 2011 film i amthe director recently headed to the kashmir valley where he has been doing a recce for his upcoming film in a candid chat with etimes the director opened up about the plot of the film saying it is a sequel to my 2011 film i am and this time this film will be celebrating queer life and queer love it will be four different stories from four different parts of india that celebrate queer loveonir on pride month myths about transgender community upcoming film celebrating queer livesour lives are not only about struggles but also about emotion beauty and celebrations and this is what i want to do with my film he addedthe director has found his leading lady in nimisha sajayan who made her film debut with thondimuthalum driksakshiyum and followed it up with critically acclaimed films like eeda and oru kuprasidha payyan we are will mark her debut in the hindi film industryaccording to a report on filmfare we are will go on floors in september 2021 and the rest of the cast is expected to be finalised soononir who has been working on a number of projects revealed that his filming schedules were all derailed due to the covidinduced lockdown opening up about his ordeals he said everything got affected i was supposed to start shooting a film last february when the entire covid thing started recently i was shooting for an indoitalian art project and we finished the first schedule and realised that things were getting terrible so we decided to postponea lot of the things i had planned like even the sequel to my film i am got postponed however my problems are still nothing compared to what people are going through today he added speaking about the covid19 impact on the film industry he recalled feeling helpless on not being able to reach out to as many people as possible during the lockdown cinema halls have been shut for so long and this industry employs so many people who are now jobless people kept reaching out to me but i too was not doing anything so you feel helpless at times because you are not able to do as much as you want to