With Bollywood hits, Manipur tribals defy 'ban' on 'Indianisation' – IndiaTimes
GUWAHATI: Manipur’s tribal Kuki-Zomi-Hmar-Zo neighborhood celebrated Independence Day by screening Bollywood blockbusters at a makeshift open-air theatre in Churachandpur on Tuesday, breaking the shackles of a ban on Hindi films clamped by an armed outfit 23 years in the past to stall what it then referred to as “the method of Indianisation”.
“That is to indicate our defiance and opposition…We might be declaring our ‘freedom’ from the anti-national terror teams,” the Tuithaphai joint headquarters of the Hmar College students’ Affiliation stated.
“Kuch Kuch Hota Hain”, the 1998 hit that was the final Hindi movie to be screened in a Manipur theatre, was a part of the day’s Bollywood feast together with the 70s traditional “Sholay” and the more moderen battle drama “Uri: The Surgical Strike”.
The open-air theatre had been arrange on the scholar organisation’s campus at Rengaki in Tuithaphai, a part of a district that has borne the brunt of the ethnic violence since Could 3.
“As Indians, we will need to have public entry to performing arts and films produced in all elements of India. The primary cause behind the ban on Hindi movies by militants is that they think about these ‘international movies having a foul affect on Manipuri tradition’. It is a view we don’t subscribe to, though the state hasn’t acted towards it until today,” Lalremsang, govt member of the affiliation instructed TOI. The Priyanka Chopra movie Mary Kom (2014), which celebrates the life and profession of world boxing champion Mary Kom, has by no means been screened in her native state.
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