IMAGI NINGTHEM  

 

Released on: 8th May 1981

 

Format: 35 mm Black & White

 

Running time: 110 minutes

 

Language: Manipuri

 

Producer: K. Ibohal Sharma ( X – Cine, Imphal)

 

Director: Aribam Syam Sharma

 

Story & Screenplay: M.K. Binodini

 

Cinematography: K. Ibohal Sharma

 

Editor: Madhusudan Banerjee

 

Music Director: Khun Joykumar

 

Achievements: Montgolfiere d' Or at the Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes, France in 1982

                         National Film Award for the Best Manipuri Film

                         National Film Award for the Best Child Actor

                         Award for the Best Feature Film at the Manipur State Film Festival

 

 Synopsis:   A teacher comes to a village and an old man asks her to tutor his grand son who is sickly all the time. The teacher becomes curious to know about the old man and the boy. She finds out from a colleague that the boy's mother had been seduced by a man and dies in child birth. It turns out that the father is husband of her cousin who is promptly apprised of the fact. Her cousin is attracted to the unfortunate boy and adopts him while her husband is absent. Subsequently the husband returns home and objects to the boy being adopted for he does not know it is his own son. The grand father wants to take the boy back but the step mother does not listen to it and ultimately keeps the boy. 

 

 -SCREENINGS OF ‘Imagi Ningthem ’ AT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS-

 

1. 4th Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes, 1982

2. 35th Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, 1982

3. 26th London Film Festival, 1982

4. 5th Montreal International Film Festival, 1982

5. 5th Denver International Film Festival, 1982

6. 11th New Directors New Films, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), 1982

7. 7th Hong Kong International Film Festival, 1982

8. International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Calcutta, 1982