Indian director Lakshmipriya Devi won a BAFTA award on Sunday for her debut feature Boong in the Best Children’s & Family Film category. Made in 2024, the Manipuri-language Boong is the story of a young boy who sets out in search of his missing father. The boy’s quest takes place against the backdrop of Manipur’s recent conflict.
Boong qualified for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards since it was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and has been shown at several other reputed festivals. Produced by Excel Entertainment, Chalkboard Entertainment and Suitable Pictures, Boong was the only Indian film nominated at the BAFTAs this year.
Boong triumphed over Arco, Lilo & Stitch and Zootopia 2. Lakshmipriya Devi attended the ceremony in London with her producers Alan McAlex, Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar (who will play Ravi Shankar in Sam Mendes’s upcoming quartet of films on the Beatles).
In the presence of such guests as the Prince and Princess of Wales, Devi began her acceptance speech with the Manipuri greeting khurumjari. Boong is a film that is “rooted in a place which is very troubled, very much ignored and very unrepresented in India”, she noted.
Devi added, “We pray for peace to return to Manipur. We pray that all the internally displaced children including the...
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