“MUM” is going to Los Angeles for OSCARS® Qualification from 9th-15th Feb 2018, with ShortsTV (Distributor of Oscar Nominated Short Films).

This is te debut film of Akash Mihani starring Gunn Mihani, Nitesh Upadhyay and Inayat Qazi, tells the story of an eight year old girl, Mamta, struggling with her homework. She gains the attention of her strict class teacher as she reads from an unwritten essay on Mother; leaving the entire class and the class teacher distressed.

Mum has garnered immense appreciation from the film personalities. This film with more than 15 awards and 50 nominations fastens its role of being a tough and promising contender to break. With its sane intentions of changing the perception of the society towards girl child and curbing the world wide issue of female infanticide.

On 5th September 2017, the film won its debut award at LIFFT – Lonavala Cine Fest (Best child actress).This was just a start and many many more awards and recognitions were yet to come. The film registered a record. After getting felicitated by the audience during a screening in the film festival, due to heavy audience demand the film was screened twice. Not just this but, during Mumbai short international film festival, the film was appreciated 5 times with a standing ovation.

The film now garnered an opportunity of life time by getting a screen space in the Beverly Hills, Los Angeles – Where all the OSCARS® best films get screened, from 9th Feb to 15th Feb 2018.

Before this the film was screened in Mumbai with Bollywoods’ legendary artist, Mr. Pankaj Tripathi along with renowned director A.K. Bir, actor Abhishek Duhaan and many other influential personalities. Here’s what they  had to say about the film and it’s exceptional effort.

“The film itself is so beautiful that my words are nothing in front of it. It is important that this film reaches  the actual village where this incident has happened. This story should reach the masses." - Mr. Pankaj Tripathi.

“It takes courage to make films on these kind of subjects." - Shaan-E-Awadh Film Festival

"The film is made on a very sensitive matter, it reflects us as humans in various ways. The kind of cinematic language used, reveals the harsh truth in a subtle way.” -A.K.Bir

“It takes guts to talk about the issues lurking in and around our environment. As film-makers it’s our responsibility to take up these issues and spread a word and this film has done exactly that”. - Abhishek Duhan. 

Till date MUM has been screened in 15 different countries across the world.