Trauma of displacement will always remain, especially for Manipur’s kids
Lakshmipriya Devi wears her BAFTA win lightly, speaking with the same disarming simplicity that runs through Boong, her debut feature that won the award recently. The film, about a schoolboy’s search for his missing father, wrapped just weeks before ethnic clashes erupted in Manipur. Devi talks about writing the story like her ten-year-old self and the joy of finally doing something for her state
