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Unused footages show Irom Sharmila's poetic side
Hindustan Times | PTI | New Delhi, November 27, 2011:
Unused footages of Irom Sharmila in a highly-secured hospital ward in Manipur have now become part of a documentary on her 11-year-long struggle against AFSPA, revealing her poetic self. Glimpses of her life under custody and how she kept her fight alive are part of the 17-minute film The Silent Poet, directed by Manipur-based journalist Borun Thokchom.
Footages shot since 2006 in Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, close to her residence in Imphal East, where she is being treated and unused by a news channel where Thokchom worked were compiled for the documentary. He started shooting Sharmila at the hospital-prison in Imphal since 2006.
A lot of films are based on her fight against AFSPA but, Thokchom says his film is different as it lays stress on the poetic side of the 39-year-old activist, who began her hunger strike on November 5, 2000 demanding revoking of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from Manipur.
It has also been sent for screening at the Mumbai International Film Festival, India and the 10th Edition of FIFDH (Geneva), Thokchom says.
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