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Rinku Angom
Rinku Angom is a budding film researcher and critic from Manipur with a background in Public Relations and Advertising. Passionate about regional and independent cinema, he explores the cultural, social, and political narratives in Manipuri films, bringing a nuanced voice to emerging film criticism.
Manipuri cinema has never lacked talented actors, writers, cinematographers, musicians, or directors. The crisis stems from something far more troubling: the growing normalization of mediocrity.
I AM SPECIAL (2017), a 47-minute English-language docufiction written, edited, and directed by Priyakanta Laishram, and produced by Harendra Laishram under the banner of Priyakanta Productions, confronts one of the most persistent problems in disability representation: not invisibility, but the way disability is seen.