{"id":891358,"date":"2026-03-02T09:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=493029"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:33:04","slug":"bafta-2026-winner-boong-a-political-coming-of-age-story-from-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/03\/02\/bafta-2026-winner-boong-a-political-coming-of-age-story-from-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"BAFTA 2026 winner \u2018Boong\u2019: A political coming-of-age story from Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?fit=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Boong political analysis Manipur\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?resize=400%2C200&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?resize=150%2C75&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?fit=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?fit=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Boong political analysis Manipur\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?resize=400%2C200&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?resize=150%2C75&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/still-3.jpg?fit=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Lakshmipriya Devi\u2019s debut directorial, Boong, brought glory to India as it was announced as the Best Children&#8217;s &#38; Family Film at the BAFTA 2026. Boong beat international nominees like Arco, Lilo &#38; Stitch, and Zootopia 2 to win the coveted award. In her acceptance speech, director Lakshmipriya Devi not only prayed for peace to return [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/entertainment\/bafta-2026-winner-boong-a-political-coming-of-age-story-from-manipur.html\">BAFTA 2026 winner &#8216;Boong&#8217;: A political coming-of-age story from Manipur<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/entertainment\/bafta-2026-winner-boong-a-political-coming-of-age-story-from-manipur.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/entertainment\/bafta-2026-winner-boong-a-political-coming-of-age-story-from-manipur.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakshmipriya Devi\u2019s debut directorial, Boong, brought glory to India as it was announced as the Best Children&#8217;s &#038; Family Film at the BAFTA 2026. Boong beat international nominees like Arco, Lilo &#038; Stitch, and Zootopia 2 to win the covet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[438,34,319,20383,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-891358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-entertainment","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891386,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891358\/revisions\/891386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}