IMPHAL, April 6 � A documentary film based on the life of Padma Bhusan Rani Gaidinliu, a freedom fighter of the Indian independence movement from Manipur was released at Manipur Press Club here on Wednesday by Z Kikhonbou Newmai, MLA.
The documentary film is produced, directed and written by Dee Abonmai XL who started shooting the film in February 2010.
Speaking on the occasion, the chief guest Z Kikhonbou Newmai said that the documentary film is a landmark in the history of the Zeliangrong community.
He praised the producer, director and writer of the documentary film for his commitment and contribution by bringing out a film on the freedom fighter and urged the people of the State to give the same education to girls as to boys so that many more Rani Gaidinliu can be raised.
The first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru had met Rani Gaidinliu while she was in Shillong jail where she spent most of her youth in a cold dark cell for standing against the British when she was still in her teens, stated K Panmei.
Narrating the difficulties while shooting the documentary film, Abonmai stated that he had to go to Nagaland several times to collect materials for the film as the family of Gaidinliu had very little things that belonged to her.
He appealed to the Government of Manipur to take up steps to preserve the memory of the freedom fighter by creating a museum to showcase her life and to built a proper memorial site at her birth place, and added that the Government of Nagaland had already sanctioned Rs 1 crore above the Rs 10 crore sanctioned by the Central Government for construction of a museum in the memory of Rani Gaidinliu in Kohima.