[9] Noblemen premiered at the New York Indian Film Festival in 2018 and Ali Haji won the ‘Best Child Actor’ award.

[2] It is winter in a prestigious all boys’ boarding school, where children continue to practice age-old rituals and codes bound by years of hierarchy of the popular norm.

Shay is picked on constantly, the main perpetrators being Arjun, the tall athletic sports captain and his best friend Baadal.

Shay and Pia, the spunky daughter of the new Junior School history teacher, are cast as Bassanio and Portia in the Founders Day production of Merchant of Venice.

"[14] Roger Walker-Dack concurred with Adlakha, and said, "The Noblemen brings home the point that in such an insidious regime where bullying still persists it is a breeding ground for even more homophobia.

"[15] Sreeparna Sengupta of The Times of India gives the film three stars out of five, praising performance of Ali Haji, Muskaan Jaferi, Hardik Thakkar, Mohommad Ali Mir, Shaan, Kunal Kapoor and Soni Razdan, she says, "Winter and the backdrop of mountains, makes for the perfect setting in Noblemen as an unpredictable twist and the end of innocence makes its way here."

She opines that Noblemen deals with school bullying and presents a graphic picture of its brutality and psychological impact it leaves on the mind of victim.

Noblemen premiered at the New York Indian Film Festival and Ali Haji won the ‘Best Child Actor’ award.