Meghachandra Kongbam

Meghachandra Kongbam is a film critic and film activist based in Manipur, India,  focused on propagating good film culture. With a Post Graduate Degree in Journalism (1979) from Banaras Hindu University and specialised knowledge from the Film Appreciation Course at FTII, Pune(1985), he has been writing on cinema for four decades. An Executive Member of FIPRESCI-India, he received the Golden Lotus Award for Best Film Critic at the 63rd National Film Awards. He served on FIPRESCI Jury at the 2024 Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short Fiction and Animation, India. He authored a comprehensive book on Manipuri cinema entitled Manipuri Cinema (2021).