The security forces had temporarily banned the screening of Ramcho Ramrin, a 180-minute movie on Naga revolutionaries, almost three decades ago. The title of the 1994 film means “empty land” in the Tangkhul language.
Directed by Wungchan Makang, Ramcho Ramrin was a departure from the romantic films that were churned out for almost two decades until the last of Ukhrul’s video halls shut down in 1998.
No armed forces personnel were around when Semmi Makang staged his play, Philachon Malhotra on April 21 as part of the 75th anniversary of the Zingtun Tangkhul Katamnao Long, a youth organisation, at Talui near Ukhrul. But few missed the connection between this 55-minute drama on the dilemma of a single mother and the 1994 film.
