Rong Kuchak

Still from students' film Rong Kuchak
Rong Kuchak
“No tribe has triumphed without a poet and no poet has triumphed without his tribe” – Mahmoud Darwish Through Ianche, a Garo poet, the film tries to understand what it feels to be a poet without a written Language. Once this saddening truth is felt and understood in its entirety can you write again? The Garos(a tribe from Meghalaya) have their own language but no script to write and hence they have been using the English alphabet for centuries now. Ianche, an accomplished poet finds himself tormented and unable and unwilling to write anymore. He can see his people completely abandoning their rich culture and he believes that the only way to save himself and them is to author a script.
  • Film Name: Rong Kuchak
  • Film Duration: 30:00 min
  • Film Language: Garo
  • Batch: 2008-2011
  • Course: Post Graduate Dip;oma in Cinema
  • Award Received: Best Film Fiction 10 mins – 30 Mins., 2nd National Student's Film Award, Volumina award, Ca Foscari Short 2015, Venice
  • Film Format: Film (35mm)
  • Film Production Year: 2013
  • Production credits:

    Direction: Dominic MegamSangma

    Camera: Tojo Xavier

    Edit: Renjith Kuzhur

    Sound: Imon Chakravorty