After 12 years, something has changed in India

“There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment and don’t have any place in the profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, some of them become RTI activists, some of them become other activists, and they start attacking everyone.”
Chief Justice of India · May 15, 2026

Filmmakers’ Statement

After 12 years of heavy right-wing repression, something this year changed in India. And in true Gen-Z fashion, it all started with a joke.

21 students who had committed suicide. A chief justice who likened young people to cockroaches. A single tweet. All of that gave rise to a movement replete with memes and shitposts that successfully and unexpectedly forced the resignation of a cabinet minister.

With intimate, guaranteed access to the people at the center of the movement, footage from Day 1 and ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, we have the opportunity to create something big: a historical document of a young people’s freedom movement, and a film that brings the conversation about what Gen-Z India wants to screens in India and abroad.

And we are asking YOU to go on that journey with us :)

Starring

AbhijeetDipke

Role and description to come.

SauravDas

Role and description to come.

AshutoshRanka

Role and description to come.

NehaBora

Role and description to come.

RatnaSingh

Role and description to come.