A young Assamese filmmaker has made a short film based on the 1962 Sino-Indian war  screened at the Cannes International Film Festival.

The name of the English film is “1962: My Country Land”. It is 108 minutes long. This movie is (28-year-old) Chow Partha Borgohain’s debut work. The film was produced by Marbom Mai under the banner Living Dreams. Borgohain has also been writer for movies with budget greater or equal to 3 crores. He is a cinematographer as well. The music has been composed by Guru Rewben Mashangva and Shankar Shankini, both of them being Manipuri artists. The film was shot at Tawang and Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh, Sohra in Meghalaya and in Guwahati.

“Whenever people talk about Arunachal Pradesh, the stories of 1962 Sino-Indian war always come up as a memory, being a painful one. The stories of 1962 are fresh with the locals residing in the affected region but many others forgot the pain and torture the people went through then,” said Borgohain, who was born in Arunachal Pradesh and is now based in Dibrugarh.

The story of “1962: My Country Land”, revolves around Luitya, an army lance naik who is given the responsibility of surveying the Sino-Indian line of actual control in Nefa that may demarcate India and Tibet’s territory.

Arunachal Pradesh governor J.P. Rajkhowa has congratulated Borgohain and the rest of the team and expressed hope that the film, shot extensively in the Northeast, would draw the attention of filmmakers all over the world.

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