{"id":170590,"date":"2015-11-25T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=80883"},"modified":"2015-11-25T13:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:21:23","slug":"indian-cinema-is-not-bollywood-aribam-syam-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2015\/11\/25\/indian-cinema-is-not-bollywood-aribam-syam-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian cinema is not Bollywood: Aribam Syam Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PANAJI, November 25 (Agencies): Expressing his concern about the lack\u00a0of importance given to regional films, eminent Manipuri\u00a0filmmaker, Aribam Syam Sharma says the focus should not be on\u00a0Bollywood movie as they don\u2019t represent Indian cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma, who is best known for his films \u201cLamja Parshuram\u201d,\u00a0\u201cImagi Ningthem\u201d and \u201cThe Chosen One\u201d, is the head of jury for\u00a0feature films in the Indian Panorama section at the ongoing\u00a0IFFI.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80885\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0034compressed.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-0\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80885 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0034compressed-318x300.jpg\" alt=\"Aribam Syam Sharma\" width=\"318\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aribam Syam Sharma while shooting &#8220;Leipaklei&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIndian cinema is not only Bollywood or films with\u00a0feel-good story line. We have films dealing with real- life in\u00a0different regions, different cultures of our country. Such\u00a0films need to be seen by the rest of the country. Diversity is\u00a0the beauty of Indian culture,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker\u2019s fellow jury member, actress-director\u00a0Bijaya Jena said the concerned authorities should help region\u00a0films and help filmmakers screen their movies at government-\u00a0owned auditoriums.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese films should be shown in different parts of the\u00a0country in the auditoriums owned by government, without\u00a0entertainment tax, so that the cost of ticket will be less. It\u00a0will motivate the common man to experience something different\u00a0from the mainstream cinema,\u201d Bijaya said.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2015\/11\/indian-cinema-is-not-bollywood-aribam-syam-sharma\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2015\/11\/indian-cinema-is-not-bollywood-aribam-syam-sharma\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PANAJI, November 25 (Agencies): Expressing his concern about the lack&nbsp;of importance given to regional films, eminent Manipuri&nbsp;filmmaker, Aribam Syam Sharma says the focus should not be on&nbsp;Bollywood movie as they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[40,43,330],"class_list":["post-170590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-headlines","tag-k-featured","tag-kanglaonline-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170591,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170590\/revisions\/170591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}