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Manipur's homegrown script
Indian Express | Esha Roy | New Delhi, Sun Apr 15 2012, 03:25 hrs
The people of Manipur are passionate about two things: one, standing for elections (every third person in the state including the neighbourhood grocer vies for a ticket) and the other, making movies. The deluge of Manipuri movies is testimony to this fact. As many as 80 movies are made and released every year in this north eastern state making the Manipuri commercial film industry one of the most prolific in the country.
A political event in 2002 led to an unprecedented increase in the production of indigenous films. Underground militant groups in and around the valley, (where most of the Hindu Meiteis live) placed a ban on Hindi movies through the state. “Everyone saw this as an opportunity to make their own movies.
“Our movies are fairly successful in halls. But we need to look for other means to recover costs. One of the most profitable methods which has emerged over the past few years are community screenings. Since movie lovers are not always comfortable leaving their homes, they ask us to screen new releases at a birthday or anniversary get-together, in a hall or a park. We charge Rs 20,000-30,000 for each of these screenings. So from a single movie, I make at least Rs 3-3.5 lakh,’’ says one of the state’s most successful commercial director, Romi Meitei.
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