Films on Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s Novels Bag Rajat Kamal Awards

Our Correspondent

Itanagar: Two films based on novels by the noted writer from Arunachal Pradesh Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi won the prestigious Rajat Kamal Award in the 66th National Film Award announced in New Delhi on Friday.

The awards carry citation and cash prize of one lakh each.

Interestingly, novelist Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi, also Shatiya Akademi Award winner for his Assamese novel Mauna Outh Mukhar Hriday (Silent lips, Murmuring Heart) in 2005, also made guest appearance in the second film.

This is the second and third novels of the writer to be converted into films to win awards. The first one was Sonam, a popular Assamese novel The film directed by Ahsan Raju Mazid deals with the folklore of the Monpa, a tribe residing in the high altitude areas of Tawang bordering China. The film was made in the Monpa dialect with local actors.

Produced by Ashok Kumar Jhuria under the banner of Garima Mountain Hives in collaboration with a charitable trust Mountain Hive, the movie is about polyandry among Yak Shepherds called Brokpas who inhabit the slopes in the Himalayas where it is customary for a woman to have more than one husband.

The film is all about a man, who accepts the lover of his wife as co-husband. Soon the presence of the second man makes him lonely. Sonam, the wife also suffers from mental and physical disabilities ends her life. The National Film Awards, given annually, is the most prominent film award in India, instituted in 1954 and administered along with International Film Festival of India and Indian Panorama.

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