‘RI’ has militancy in Meghalaya
as its background but actually it deals with human feelings and relationships,
says Pradip Kurbah , the Director of the Khasi film which has made it to the
45th IFFI. Addressing the media in the Press room of 45TH International
Film Festival of India in Goa, Pradip said that film making in Meghalaya has
picked up only recently . The infrastructure for screening films is very poor
in the state, government support is yet to begin and the challenge of
ever-changing technology makes it difficult for film makers to give technically
good productions. The Director, working in the field of Khasi film industry
since the age of seventeen said that the film RI was shot in 18 days with a
total budget of only Rs 22 lakhs. Films in local language get quickly displaced
by Bollywood Blockbusters, due to which they have to take the film to villages
and show them on projectors, he revealed. Such films can’t recover costs due to
this difficulty and making a new film is a struggle even for an established
director, he added. The lead actor Merlvin Mukhim explained that the film
portrays the common collective past of the North-East and has been made to
educated today’s youth.
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