‘Nani Teri Morni’ a film by Akashaditya Lama, an Indian film director and scriptwriter based in Mumbai, will be released during the Children Film Bonanza at Kohima on October 9.
The film is based on Mhonbeni Ezung who was the youngest recipient of national bravery award for children in the year 2015. She saved her grandmother from drowning and triumphs over her fear.
DIPR stated in a report that with Motto of ‘Promoting Every Child's Right to Entertainment’ Children's Film Society, India (CFSI) is organizing ‘Children Film Bonanza’ from October 9 to 11 at RCEMPA Auditorium, Kohima and on October 12 and 13 at the State Academy hall, Kohima.
The festival is being organised in collaboration with the Departments of Social Welfare and Art & Culture, Youth Resources & Sports, School Education and Information & Public Relations, Government of Nagaland. The target audience will be the students from Class V to Class XII of both Government and Private Schools.
Born in Ranchi, Bihar (now in Jharkhand) and brought up in Kolkata (West Bengal) Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh), the Director of the film, Lama got his diploma in Mechanical Engineering in 1996-97. He got his first break in the business of films and television in 1998 by assisting in Ad films. He has been an assistant director, screenplay writer, dialogue writer, theatre artist, playwright, script writer and has directed feature film, Cigarette Ki Tarah. He has also written additional dialogue for the film Lahore, directed by Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan which won two National Film Awards. He has co-written Chauhan's next directorial venture Chanda Mama Door Ke. Lama has also written and co- produced nationally and critically acclaimed Hindi play Mohenjodare. Also, he is the first director-producer from Mumbai Film Industry who has shot the entire film in the hills of Nagaland.
(MExN)
