ABOUT
Agneya Singh is a filmmaker, writer, and multidisciplinary artist from India. His work moves between cinema, poetry, and the essay form — grounded in the politics of dissent, the poetics of place, and the emotional architectures of memory. Born in New Delhi and trained at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he began as a documentary filmmaker before shifting toward experimental narratives that fracture traditional storytelling.
Recurring across his films and writing is a preoccupation with rebellion — not as spectacle, but as a condition of being in the world. Whether working behind the camera or on the page, Agneya’s work interrogates the edges of freedom, state, and self. His debut feature film M Cream, a satirical road movie about youth and resistance, won multiple international awards including Best Feature at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. The film was theatrically distributed by PVR Pictures and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
He is currently based between Europe and India, developing new projects in film and literature.
Agneya Singh is a writer and filmmaker whose work explores dissent, memory, and the politics of storytelling across film and text.
Agneya Singh is a filmmaker and graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has written, directed, and produced short films and documentaries that trace the landscapes of resistance, dissent, and displacement. His debut feature, M Cream, is a satirical road movie shot on location in the Himalayas — a journey through rebellion, idealism, and the fault lines of a changing nation.
LOGLINE
A motley crew of university students set out on a journey in pursuit of a mythical form of hash, confronting a series of encounters that begin to unravel the myriad realities of rebellion.
SYNOPSIS
FIGS is the typical cynic one finds lurking in the expansive lawns of Delhi University. Entangled in a web of drugged out delirium, he’s the quintessential rebel. His world is thrown into disarray when a sudden scarcity of hash snatches away his favorite pastime. Unable to cope with the situation, Figs joins forces with a motley crew of fellow students on a quest to attain M Cream, a mythical form of hash. The road trip results in a series of unexpected encounters that begin to unravel the myriad realities of rebellion.
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FILM STILLS
AWARDS & SCREENINGS
AWARDS & SCREENINGS
Best Feature Film – Rhode Island International Film Festival
Best Foreign Feature – Indie Spirit Film Festival
Platinum Remi – WorldFest Houston
Official Selection – Internationales Film Festival Braunschweig
Official Selection – FilmColumbia Festival
Official Selection – Cork Film Festival
Best Cinematography – Madrid Film Festival
Official Selection – Boston Film Festival
Official Selection – New Jersey Film Festival
Best Actor – St Tropez Film Festival
Official Selection – Arizona Film Festival
Official Selection – River to River Florence Indian Film Festival
Official Selection – London Indian Film Festival
Official Selection – Silk Road Film Festival
Official Selection – Seattle South Asian Film Festival
Official Selection – San Antonio Film Festival
Official Selection – New York Indian Film Festival
Official Selection – Oakland Film Festival
Official Selection – Chicago South Asian Film Festival
MOVIE REVIEWS
“M Cream is not only a wildly promising debut feature film, but an eye-popping, propulsive and energetic hybrid of American independent and Bollywood filmmaking.”
– Laurence Kardish, FilmColumbia
Dispatches – Truthout
Emmanuel Freedom is a refugee. He’s 22 years old and has been living in Malta for the last 18 months. As night falls on the island, he heaves a sigh of relief. He considers every day to be a victory, a promise for a brighter tomorrow.
Film Review – The Citizen
Join Agneya Singh in a deep dive into Martin Scorsese’s cinematic homage to Bob Dylan. Is it a masterpiece or a muddle? This analysis grapples with the elusive nature of the music icon, exploring how Scorsese attempts—and perhaps intentionally struggles—to define the legendary artist on screen.
Poetry – The Words Faire Press
Memory is a fickle thing − a bushel of apples, the grunt of an old oak and grasshoppers in the rain − trudging up the slime of hill, I miss a step.
Staring out the ricket of window, I yearn for a daybreak as pristine; but I find the twisted roots of an old Chinar, forlorn in the fog of war.
Photo Essay – The Citizen
London Town! The very words conjure up a flurry of starry-eyed emotions tinged by the sweetness of wanderlust. No matter where you’re from or where you’ve been or even where you’re heading to next, London retains a pride of place in the world map of any respectable globetrotter.
Photo Essay – The Citizen
Witness the silent determination of India’s farmers as they converge on Delhi for the Kisan Mukti March. Through powerful snapshots and poignant observations, this piece reveals the stark reality behind the crowds—faces etched with hardship, yet fueled by a profound, collective hope for a brighter future. It’s a testament to the quiet strength of those fighting for their livelihood.
Poetry – The Words Faire Press
Memory is a fickle thing − a bushel of apples, the grunt of an old oak and grasshoppers in the rain − trudging up the slime of hill, I miss a step.
Poetry – Inlandia Journal
WHOOSH!
Long afloat on a tempest of obsidian, waves of cerulean dance in the dark of night… And here I am a block of recycled Styrofoam, calling out my mother’s name, stirring up an incantation of Igbo and Yoruba as I sit huddled on the far end of a dinky boat, bobbing up and down, and down and up again.
LATEST FROM THE BLOG!
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“The night sits wherever you are. Your night is of lilac. Every now and then a gesture escapes from the beam of your dimples, breaks the wineglass and lights up the starlight. And your night is your shadow, a fairy-tale piece of land to make our dreams equal.” — Mahmoud Darwish
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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.” —Haruki Murakami
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M Cream is streaming worldwide on Amazon Prime Video!
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“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet… Maybe we could understand something.” — Federico Fellini
MENTIONS
“M Cream is not only an epic film, its a fantastic cultural fusion of American independent and Indian cinema. Agneya Singh is the Jack Kerouac of his generation.” – George T. Marshall, RIIFF
“Agneya and the cast of M Cream perfectly exemplify the exciting future of South Asian cinema. We’re proud to showcase the film and the next generation of emerging talent in Chicago” – Amit Rana, CSAFF
“The emergence of a different voice in Indian cinema.”
– Don O’Mahony, Film Critic
“A powerful meditation on the profundity and fragility of youth.”
– Lynne Sachs, Filmmaker
“An India the world hasn’t really seen before!”
“A portrait of the Indian youth and its rebellious ways.”
“Agneya insists that making a film is a cathartic process. It involves sizeable research and the painfully correct tedium of settling for nothing less than pure perfection in putting one’s energy into making a story stand out on screen.”
“From Bollywood to a new wave of independent cinema, the festival has been celebrating popular films made in India and by Indian filmmakers world-wide for 15 years. Highlights include the druggie road movie M Cream…”
“Even the stoner movie M Cream, about Delhi students on a quest for the best hashish in India, shows a marked shift in the portrayal of women and gender relations.”
“Filmmaker Agneya Singh plans to release his film “M Cream”, which has travelled to over 30 festivals, in July.”
“The film asks the question, ‘What does it mean to be a revolutionary?'”
“M Cream, he says, is just a plot device that talks about the main question — what does is mean to be a young person in India today?”
“Director Agneya Singh of upcoming film M Cream hopes that the movie, which has marijuana as an important element, opens the debate regarding legalisation of marijuana in India.”
“Watch the exclusive interview of the cast & director of ‘M Cream’ with Box Office India.”