Y D Thongchi feels film-makers should turn to tribal areas in the Northeast to experiment with new story lines as audiences have got bored with the same plots being repeated.
ITANAGAR: Sahitya Academy award winning Arunachalee writer Y D Thongchi feels film-makers should turn to tribal areas in the Northeast to experiment with new story lines as audiences have got bored with the same plots being repeated over and over again.
"They (film-makers) seem to have exhausted of ideas. They should now turn to stories from tribal belts of the Northeast based on unique customs and practices that go beyond the imagination of people of the plains," Thongchi said.
Thongchi, a Monpa Buddhist from Bomdila in West Kameng district, has seven popular novels and two collections of short stories on the lives of different tribes in Arunachal to his credit.
He collected material for his stories while working as a state government employee in different districts.
Thongchi, now tourism secretary of the hilly state, said he does not find to meet people willing to take produce films based on his stories or turn them in in to drama performances.
However, he has given his entire work for translation in Bengali and Hindi to Kolkata and Delhi publishers because of demands from mainland readers.
He said he had been approached by some Indian directors and producers for film rights of the novel but he did not agree.
In 2006, a Arunachalee feature film based on his story "Sonam" was released and was reasonaly successful, he said, adding that he was not satisfied with the way the film deviated from his original story.
Thongchi (56), won the Sahitya Academy award in 2005 for his novel "Maun Oth, Mukhar Hriday" (Silent Lips, Talking Heart).
His six other novels include "Sa Kata Manuh" (Professionals who chop off a human body after death for disposal as per tribal customs).
"Sa Kata Manuh" was based on the impact of the massive earthquake of 1950 and the entry of thousands of refugees in the wake of Dalai Lama's arrival from Tibet to India through the Tawang route and the 1962 war with China in Tawang sector.
"Only foreign producers could do justice because it needs lot of money to shoot a film on his novel as the story demands depiction of thousands of Dalai followers with their costumes pouring into India in 1959," he said.
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