By Priya Talwar
“I don’t know how the Delhi audience will perceive my movie, but it was well-received at the Agartala Film Festival and the Munich International Film Festival, 2010,” says 40-something Lancha about the digital feature that is one of his two films screened at the festival.
Taking place across the Capital — including Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Milia Islamia and Delhi University — the festival features more than 40 Manipuri films, like Ishanou, Matamgi Manipur and Iamgi Niingthem, and has on sale books, films and handicraft objects from Manipur. “It is time that Manipuri cinema introspects.
Youngsters in the region are becoming more conscious, socially and politically,” says Lancha, who began his career as a child actor.
He turned to filmmaking in 2009, with Mami Sami that deals with the dilemmas of a woman who is trapped in the daily battles taking place in the state.
Her former lover, supposedly dead, resurfaces as the leader of an underground militant group.
His second film in the festival, Elisha Amagi Mahao, meanwhile, is based on N Kunjamohan Singh’s Sahitya Academy award winning story.
Revolving around a fisherman and his son, who manage to catch a big Elisha, the film featured in the Indian Panaroma of the International Film Festival of India, Goa, 2004 and 2009, and won him the Best Director award at the 2010 Cine ASA Guwahati International Film Festival.
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