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'Bridge', 'Eigi Kona', 'Highways of Life' get entry to Indian Panorama
Source: IT News

Guwahati/Imphal, December 20 2020: Assamese feature film 'Bridge', directed by young film maker Kripal Kalita, Bobby Wahengbam and Maipaksana Haorongbam's Manipuri feature film- Eigi Kona(Stallone My Pony) and Maibam Amarjeet Singh's Manipuri non-feature film- Highways of Life were selected for the Indian Panorama of the 51st International Film Festival of India 2020 which will be showcased on the big screen during 51st International Film Festival of India scheduled for 16-24 January in Goa.

Announced by the Union information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Prakash Javadekar recently in New Delhi, the list also includes Manipuri movie 'Eigi Kona' by Bobby Wahengbam in the feature films section.

I&B minister Javdekar announced the selection of 23 feature and 20 non-feature films in Indian Panorama comprising many outstanding movies like 'Saand Ki Aankh' (Hindi) by Tushar Hiranandani, 'Up Up & Up' (in English) by Govind Nihalani, 'Namo' (Sanskrit) by Vijeesh Mani, 'Kalira Atita' (Oriya) by Nila Madhab Panda, 'Prawaas' (Marathi) by Shashank Udapurkar, 'A Dog And His Man' (Chattisgarhi) by Siddharth Tripathy etc.

The list of non-feature films includes 'Highways Of Life' (Manipuri) by Maibam Amarjeet Singh, 'Ahimsa- Gandhi: The Power Of The Powerless' (English) by Ramesh Sharma, 'Green Blackberries' (Nepali) by Prithvirag Das Gupta, 'Oru Paathiraa Swapnam Pole' (Malayalam) by Sharan Venugopal, 'Radha' (Bengali) by Bimal Poddar, 'Paanchika' (Gujarati) by Ankit Kothari, 'Jhat Aayi Basant' (Pahari/Hindi) by Pramati Anand, etc.

Assamese movie Bridge narrates the story of a struggling woman in rural Assam on the bank of a Brahmaputra tributary.

The 87 minutes film depicts the relentless efforts by villagers to rebuild their lives every time after the annual waves of flood and erosion.

Produced by Rama Kumar Das and Sabita Devi under the banner of Kristipathar, the movie has cinematography by Ramen Rabha, editing by Kishore Deka, sound design and mixing by Amrit Pritam and music by the director himself.

Casts include Shiva Rani Kalita, Partha Protim Bora, Swapnil Nath, Anindita Das, Suren Mahanta, etc.

Eigi Kona was among 20 feature films selected from a wide pool of 183 contemporary Indian films by a jury of 12 members headed by acclaimed filmmaker and screenwriter John Mathew Matthan.

The 90- minute Eigi Kona is an index of how polo players and ponies are leading pathetic lives in the birth place of polo.

Thawai, a young boy loves to play Polo riding Stallone, a pony.

Like him, Stallone is descendant of the horse his famous grandfather rode on playing polo.

Again, like him, horses are in shabby positions for want of food and shelter.

His father can't help but to sell Stallone out of poverty where Thawai becomes sick with the pangs of separation from the horse.

Such a wonderful and skilful polo pony is now using to ferry liquor as it is commercially more useful.

Unable to see Thawai's suffering, all including the coach, mentor, and family members try to bring back Stallone.

The owner, who used to be a great player, finally hands over the pony to Thawai for the love of the game.

The film is produced by Dr.K.Sushila Devi, former Director of Art & Culture, Government of Manipur.

Highways of Life was among 20 non-feature films selected from a diverse pool of 143 contemporary Indian non-feature films by a jury of seven members headed by acclaimed feature and documentary filmmaker Haobam Paban Kumar.

The 52-minute film- Highways of life is a detailed look at the high octane lives of Manipur's Highway truckers.

Manipur is literally connected to the rest of the world only through two National highways.

But frequent economic blockade lightening general strike, armed ransom extortion, and bad road conditions make these lifeline life-threatening for truckers.

The film journeys a group of truckers through these unfavourable highways putting their lives on the frontline, ferrying essential commodities to serve the three million people of Manipur.

The film is produced by the Films Division.

Bobby Wahengbam was the Swarna Kamal awardee of the Best Writing on Cinema in his book-Matamgi Manipur: The First Manipuri Feature Film in the National Film Awards 2017.An active member of Manipur Film Journalists and Critics Association and Film Society of Manipur, he graduated from St.Xavier's College, Mumbai and obtained Master degree from University of Mumbai.

A Diploma on Film production from Xavier's Institute of Communication, Mumbai, he had three-year stint as Assistant Director in Mumbai under Gyan Correa and Sanjay Talreja.

He acted as protagonist in Manipuri feature film- Meichak (2000) directed by L.Banka Sharma.

His documentaries- Joseph's son and Roshni were screened at Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) organised by the Films Division in 2008 and 2010 respectively.

Maipaksana Haorongbam was a national award winning film maker whose feature film- Eibusu Yaohanbiyu bagged the Best Regional film in Manipuri in the National Film Awards 2015 and was also screened at the International Children Film Festival of India , Hyderabad organised by the Children Film Society of India in 2017 .

His Tangkhul- Manipuri feature film- Wonnam (2018) was selected in the Itanagar International Film Festival 2019 .

Maipaksana received the three-year Diploma Course in Film Editing from the Dr Bhupen Hazarika Regional Film and Television Institute, Guwahati in 2004.He was a Master Degree in Manipuri Literature from Manipur University in 2014 .

Amar Maibam is the son of legendary film maker MA Singh.

After learning the nuances of filmmaking from his father and Graduation from Manipur University, he learned a one-year Cinematography course from Kolkata Film and TV Institute.

He made his directorial debut with a documentary entitled City of Victims (2009).Highways of Life has been recently conferred with the best film award at the Liberation Doc fest 2020, Dhaka and shown in competition section of many other reputed film festival including Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival.


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