If You Love Your Children tells the story of Raj Camarta, an engineer working at the company called CPNG – a natural gas and coal based power plant located in Canada, struggles to write and publish a book. Raj Camarta has a great job and a beautiful wife but he is haunted by the loss of innocent people in a natural disaster fueled by climate change. In his desire to get published, he destroys his marriage, loses his home and his livelihood.
The essence of the story is, Raj Camarta (played by Edmonton based actor Steve Dhillon) begins a crusade to educate the world but faces a numbers of challenges in getting published. His wife Jessica (played by Calgary based actress Katy Doucette) is a materialistic person and she doesn't support Raj and thinks that he is wasting his time on such a silly subject of climate change, which is not even real. Jessica become seven more upsets when she comes across a pile of rejection letters from various publishers who has rejected Raj's manuscript. Raj's employer is not supportive either and Raj is getting fired from CPNG on the ground of recession after a communication manager of the CPNG watches Raj on one of the news channels discussing climate change and his upcoming book.
At the end of day, Raj becomes a best seller and epilogue reveals the most beautiful and emotional part of this beautiful short film. Sanjay Patel, director and producer of this film, is an engineer, works in the energy industry and has authored a book titled "the future of oil." Although his first time, Sanjay has done a wonderful job in bringing the beautiful story into life with the use of VFX and computer graphics shots in the film. Overall, very well done, an inspirational and heart touching film on such a controversial topic of climate change. I must say it is a MUST watch film for everyone.
