As ULFA-I talks truce, Assamese film relives days of conflict
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‘Montur Montuh’ has won a couple of awards in the international film festival circuit
It wasn’t easy growing up in the conflict-scarred Assam of the 1980s and 1990s. They were the decades when the extremist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and other region or tribe-specific groups were on the ascendancy post the anti-foreigners Assam Agitation. The 1974-born Ramen Borah was not immune to what was happening around him in central Assam’s Nagaon. Every second home in almost every Assamese village was affected by the armed revolution against “colonial India”, mothers losing sons, women losing husbands, youngsters killed, missing or disabled for the rest of their lives. He connected with a short story by Sahitya Akademi Purabi Bormudoi and adapted it for his first feature film, Montur Montuh (Montu’s Mind).More Related News