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The Manipur valley in North East India is home to Maibis, the only living representatives of the ancient Meitei culture that was prevalent in the valley before the advent of Vaishnavite Hinduism. After undergoing rigorous training in an institution known as the Loisang, which could stretch for even two decades, the Maibis are mandated to fulfill the role of healers and to preserve and transmit traditional knowledge of the environment, with which an intricate system of dependency had been built over millennia. The Film attempts to explore the role that the Maibis have played and are playing, their relevance and the threat to their very existence posed by the forces of ‘development’ and patriarchal mindsets.
A graduate from the Film and Television institute of India, with a specialisation in Motion picture photography, Kasuhik went on to do an advanced post production course in the UK, with the BBC, and worked as an assistant producer in various genres of programming. After returning to India in the late nineties he directed and photographed many corporate documentaries, Ad films, documentaries and fiction works for various producers including National Geographic, UNESCO, UNDP and FAO , noteworthy among them a five part series on Tibetan Buddhism that won the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto International Festival.
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