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Once Again

Story Inspired from teaching of Buddha
Raj Malhotra, a self centered company executive, takes life for granted and uses situations and people around him to his advantage. But life takes an unexpected turn, forcing him to accept the reality and this paves the way to a journey of transformation.

  • SANJAY ARORA
    Director
    Butterfly Wings, Expression ,Chase
  • SANJAY ARORA
    Writer
    Butterfly Wings, Expression
  • SANJAY ARORA
    Producer
    Butterfly wings, Chase,expression
  • Shaunak Kapur
    Key Cast
  • Vidhi sethi
    Key Cast
  • Jyoti Sachdeva
    Key Cast
  • Dr Ajay Arora
    Key Cast
  • Kuldeep Lula
    Key Cast
  • Manish Jain
    Key Cast
  • Olga Samuel
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Feature, Short
  • Genres:
    Spiritual, Transformation, Inspirational, Drama, Fiction
  • Runtime:
    47 minutes 24 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English, Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 6th Boomtown Film festival, 2013 Texas(USA)
    Texas(USA)
    3rd Prize in Feature Film Category
  • Great Lakes International Film Festival, 2013, PA, (USA)
    PA, (USA)
    Best Religious/Spiritual film
  • World Music & Independent Film Festival (WMIFF) 2013, Washington DC (USA)
    Washington DC (USA)
    Nominated for ‘Best South East Asian Director’
  • International Film Festival for Peace, Inspiration and Equality 2013,Jakarta, Indonesia
    Jakarta, Indonesia
    'Honorable Mention Award
  • 9th Free Spirit Film Festival, McLeod Ganj,2013, India.
    Dharmshala, India
    “Best Screenplay Award “
  • Trinity Film Coalition film festival, 2013 , Detroit (USA)
    Detroit (USA)
  • Chandigarh Cinema Circle,2013 (India)
    Chandigarh, India
  • Delhi International Film Festival (India)
    New Delhi ,India
  • FEST 2014 Espinho (Portugal)
    Espinho
    June 28, 2014
    European
  • COLOR Film Festival 2014, Oklahoma City (USA )
    Oklahoma City,USA
    August 29, 2014
  • 5th Freindship film Festival of CIS countries and India (India)
    New Delhi
    November 19, 2014
Director Biography - SANJAY ARORA

Sanjay Arora has been part of show business for the past 11 years. He has written and directed many comedy skits and plays. He started as a host at the All India Radio, and developed and hosted many programs targeting Indian youth. In between, he did many stage plays, mimes, and mono acting at several places in India. He has performed versatile roles in comedy skits, plays and family TV serials in Canada and India.

Even though he was working as a software engineer, his passion was always in acting and film making. Sanjay has a Degree in Electronics Engineering and PG in Management. He did Diploma in Filmmaking from New York Film Academy, New York (USA), and took courses in digital film editing from Detroit Film School, Michigan (USA). He attended the India Today Acting School in Toronto (Canada), where he was trained by Roshan Taneja, Bombay's famous acting guru.
As an Independent film maker, He produced and directed ‘Expression’ ,’Chase’ ,‘Butterfly Wings’ and ‘Once Again (Phir Vehi)’ with Russian , Indian and American Actors. His new upcoming Feature Film in 2023 ' Kaveri' is in Pre Production .

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Director Statement

Why I made this film

“Once Again” is based on the inevitable concept: "Truth of Life". I have been an ardent believer and follower of this concept for many years.
In reality, Death is the "Truth of Life". "If we are "Aware of Death" in every moment, our life will be full of love and compassion. We will not think of harming anyone." Since this awareness has transformed my life, I wanted to share this experience with the world. "Once Again" takes this journey to depict the reality of our lives and the process of transformation that will impact many lives positively. I am not talking about living in fear of death. I talk about Awareness. With this thought, life becomes fearless. It changes our perspective of how we look at things around us and makes living life meaningful. Everyone has to go one day from this earth, then why hate someone, why postpone our decisions that require lot of courage? By living our life to the fullest in the moment and fearlessly, there will be no postponement.

Sanjay Arora