Theatre of the Earth

About the film

When amateur theatre practitioner Kanhailal was thrown out of National School of Drama in 1968, he didn’t give up hope. Along with his actress/wife Sabitri, he started an inward journey of meditation reflecting on the rich ‘body culture’ of Manipur and the energies of the earth. Drawing on the relentless miseries of their own life and the socio-political traumas of the Manipur society, their plays evoke the resilient spirit of the human soul. Theatre of the Earth tells the extraordinary journey the couple made from poverty, rejection, and controversy to subsequent honour; with the Indian theatre world heralding them as one of the country’s finest theatre icons.

Director Biography

Oinam Doren is a film-maker, writer, active social worker, talented photographer and producer. His latest film Theatre of the Earth won the Best film: Cinema of resistance award at the recently concluded Signs Film Festal held in Kochi, Kerala from 26- 30 September 2017.