• Sunil Koijam

ABSTRACT Since Manipuri films turns digital and the affordability of film making is getting cheaper, financing is taking a new turn. Compared to the celluloid era, where even thinking of a new script is scared upon with the amount to be spent, the contemporary digital ones are building film makers and its associates a creative freedom. With more than one lakh people directly and indirectly dependent on the film economy, financing pattern in Manipuri films has also come a long way. The present paper will explore the changing pattern of film financing and its sway for survival. Approximately 60 films are commercially produced in Manipur with some 20 screens only to showcase, the survival limit for a film is less. But producers are today coming up with new initiatives and innovations which are making them profit happy. The content, form and execution of narratives are taking a new turn owing to the availability of finance. The paper also explores the films makers’ unique way of survival in the time of crisis.

Manipuri films, film finance, film narratives, crisis management in filmmaking

"Financing patterns of Films industry in Manipur: a sway for survival", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.580-586, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C46.pdf

"Financing patterns of Films industry in Manipur: a sway for survival", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp580-586, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C46.pdf