IMPHAL, Dec 8: The Annual General Meeting of the India organisation of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) has approved the membership of four Indian film critics including National awardee, the Manipuri film critic Meghachandra Kongbam.
The other three are Siraj Syed, Narendra Bandabe and Minakshi Dutta.
In an emailed message communicated by eminent film critic MK Raghavendra, the secretary of FIPRESCI-India on December 7, the president and the executive committee of FIPRESCI India welcomed Meghachandra Kongbam as a member of the National Section of FIPRESCI International.
Kongbam had the passion for cinema after he encountered the film medium during his university days in Benaras Hindu University while pursuing Post Graduate Bachelor Degree in Journalism in 1978.
Haobam Paban Kumar, the Indian film maker is the only recipient of the FIPRESCI prize from Manipur. For his contribution in writing on cinema, Meghachandra Kongbam was honoured with a memento and a certificate as film critic during the Silver Jubilee Celebration of Manipuri Cinema in 1997; awarded the Best Film Journalist Award 2010 by the Film Forum, Manipur, and the prestigious Best Film Critic Award of 63rd National Film Awards of 2015.
