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Fish fry for the Manipuri soul
Times of India | Bachi Karkaria | Mar 25, 2012, 06.16AM IST
Fried fish is served first, the 'chicken soup' comes later, and by the time we reach the chaotic 'premiere' , we have made a rivetting journey through Manipuri cinema . And through a Manipur where the cliches of conflict and beauty take on a disturbingly different form.
'Fried Fish...' is a road film, 'hanging around' the making of '21st century Kunti' ; earlier Manipuri cinema wanders in and out. It's an experiential usage of the footage. The Manipuri filmmakers actually create the narrative, not just be the narrative," says the unnervingly young Mamta.
The film draws in the larger swathe of Manipuri cinema. It's a long and vibrant oeuvre, not only because of a 30-year-long ban on the screening of Hindi films. Says Mamta, "Mine is not a curatorial representation . The films included are meant to trigger rumination. For instance , on roads as a site of love in an earlier era (even gay love - the first archival sequence I show in the film appears to be two men romancing each other, in the 1960s!) to roads as a site of violence in recent times."
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