Zami Singson

An admirable attempt but falls short of in-depth research and plot. Any NorthEast Indian watching this is going to be highly confused. Adio and her father's character seem to belong more to Nagaland or Manipur, but the backdrop is people from Meghalaya. Believe it or not, we recognise our own people and we are all wondering in which state is all this conflict happening. The movie, instead, just vaguely gestures a proverbial hand in the air and labels all of us as "NorthEast" which is very on-brand for mainland India and its tendency to regard all of us as the same people, with minimal attempt to learn about our differences. Another question is why the Northeastern characters speak to each other in Hindi even when just amongst themselves? This might shock some people but we don't speak Hindi in most of NorthEast India - we have our own languages. Subtitles are a thing, people. It's meant to be fictitious, yes but you can't rewrite culture. Maybe allow North-eastern folks to tell our own individual stories next time. This whole "white-savior approach" but make it Indian leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I'll still give it two stars for the attempt that was made. So i guess E for Effort.