Yarwng - (Roots), promoting Kokborok world wide

[6/12/2009],A Debbarma, adebbarma@tiprasa.com

Yarwng - Roots, a 95 minutes film, which had already won Special Jury Mention Award at the 7th Asian Film Festival 2008 in Mumbai, is now to be premiered in New York's Museum of Modern Art on 12th and 14th of June 2009.

The film story is about, the brutal and bitter upheaval of tribal peoples of Tripura, in northeast India, their fertile riverside villages submerged by the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the 1970s in Dumbur lake, Tripura, where a love story evolved between a man and a woman, whose love story is only to end on the fatal day, they were to marry, because of the construction dam.

Yarwng, released in September 2008, directed by Fr Joseph Pulinthanath, is produced by Sampari Pictures Tripura, a film production concern of the Salesians registered with the Eastern India Motion Picture Association. It is the second full length film from Sampari Pictures, the first being Mathia (The Bangle) in 2004.

Fr Joseph writes, modestly: "The film has been doing well. It has already been to 20 international film festivals within India, including the IFF in Goa, where it was the inaugural film for the India Panorama section....At the Asian Festival in Mumbai it picked up a Special Jury mention with an Israeli film".

The film is also set to be premiered at Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), to be held in that city from 30th July to 9th August 2009. Later the film will also be premiere in Stuttgart at the 'Bollywood and Beyond' festival. This will be its European premiere.

A rare success for film from North East India especially if it is from Tripura,
The film has earn many national and international accord, New York Times described the film as "a rare glimpse into tribal India" and it is being described as "a rare specimen of the power of the cinema" by Film critic, Kolkata.

Taking Kokborok to the international level, the film has done justice to the language and people, promoting the language, culture, and it's people world wide.


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"..A brilliant writer with another true & sophiscated Story about the Vulnerable & Marginalised indigenous people of Twipra..A Big hand for the writer......."
Rdbarma, rdbarma07@gmail.com , 6/12/2009

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"..Since I live outside, how I can get a copy of that movie? .."
Binota Moy Dhamai, bdtripura@gmail.com , 6/13/2009

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"..Yarwng Tripura hani phataro thangnai hinwi khwnawi thongthokjak-kha... Bangla hao-bo kopi rohordi...
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Mathura Tripura, mathura.tripura@gmail.com , 6/14/2009

"..Its a great news for me, I can never imagine Kokborok movie premiered in New York.
Great work and congratulation to the Team of Yarwng, Keep up, we need more such movies.
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wansuk, wansuk18@gmail.com , 6/15/2009


"..Works, like this movie, are inspiring. There are a handful of Tripuris engaged in producing stupid videos. And others, like this director, not a Tripuri, produces brilliant films and win laurels..."
R K Debbarma, rkdebbarma@gmail.com , 4/8/2009


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