Express News ServiceFirst Published : 24 Jan 2010 10:11:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 24 Jan 2010 01:46:14 PM IST
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While busy analysing why Malayalam films missed out on the big awards in the National Film Award category, a group of Malayalis are wondering why they are not being counted - the crew of the Kokborok film `Yarwng’ which won the national honour (award for the best film in each of the language not included in Schedule VIII of the Constitution). In addition to its director Fr Joseph Pulinthanath, `Yarwng’, which means `roots’, has a bunch of Malayalis associated with it - cameraman Kannan, sound recordist Krishna Kumar, associate cameraman Shaji Pattanam, Krishnan Unni who does sound mixing, editor Sasi Menon and Mahesh Narayanan, associate director Sajiv Pazhoor and producer Fr K Joseph.
“It is a big honour. We all are very happy about it,’’ Fr Joseph Pulinthanath, a Malayali priest now settled in Assam. The Kokborok tribe in Tripura has been neglected for long and the film gave a new identity, an unprecedented one, for the tribe and the language. The 60-member crew braved several odds to make the film happening, the second one from the director in the language, the first being `Mathia’. ‘Yarwng’ is the second feature film of Don Bosco Sampari Pictures Tripura.
The story of the 95-minute feature film revolves round the large-scale displacement which happened in Tripura when the newly-built Dumbur dam submerged huge areas of arable land in the fertile Raima valley about 30 years ago. The lead actors of Yarwng are Meena Debbarma, Nirmal Jamatia and Sushil Debbarma.
The film is about the romance between Karmati and Wakhiri. On the eve of their marriage, the dam submerges the entire village and separates them. ‘Yarwng’ was shot on actual locations like Bolongbasa and adjoining areas and many of the people who act in the film are real life victims of displacement.
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