Syam Manohar is a filmmaker, creative director, and co-founder of Sutra Communications. Over a career spanning more than 30 years, he has developed stories for brands across India and the Middle East and worked on more than 500 television commercials. His work now extends from live-action filmmaking into AI cinema. Through short films such as Blue Buddha, he explores memory, love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives. For Syam, technology opens new ways to tell stories, while human emotion remains at the centre of every film.