Manipur State Film Festival, India 1994

Maibi Award

Best Actor

Khundrakpam Joykumar Sambal Wangma For a sensitive portrayal of an outcast for entering wedlock with a near cousin a forbidden lifelong suffering and privations.

WINNER

Best Actress

Anoubam Kiranmala Ishanou For her super performance in portraying the experiences and emotions of a young married women who is called to cult of a professional Maibi.

WINNER

Best Art Direction

Khaidem Promodini Langlen Thadoi For commendably dovetailing the Loktak scenario with the theme and background of the story.

WINNER

Best Audiography

Aribam Shantimo Sharma Mayophy Gee Macha For his ability to create a distinctive and well-balanced sound of dialogue, music and atmosphere effects.

WINNER

Best Child Actor

Moirangthem Amirkumar Paap For his performance in the role of Amarjeet who oppressed and tortured by a step-mother.

WINNER

Best Cinematography

Laimayum Surjakanta Sharma Ingallei For masterly use of the camera with aesthetic lighting in order to capture a meaningful atmosphere of the subject in the film.

WINNER

Best Cinematography (Non Feature Film)

Phurailatpam Sharatchandra Sharma Koro Kosii For capturing striking visuals in the difficult hilly terrain to communicate the essence of a rare tradition.

WINNER

Best Costume Designer

Ngangbam Swarnajit Iche Sakhi For his ability to design situation costumes and dresses for the various characters in the film.

WINNER

Best Direction

Aribam Syam Sharma Ishanou For a well-researched and aesthetic presentation of the Maibi cult of the Meitei community cinematically.

WINNER

Best Editing

Utjal Nandi Mayophy Gee Macha For smooth, precise and excellent editing which makes the film an attractive and compact piece.

WINNER

Best Feature Film

Ishanou For its successful presentation of the unique cult of Maibi, the venerated priestess and spiritual medium in the Meitei traditional spiritual system fulfilling the requisites of a good film.

WINNER

Best Female Playback Singer

Ayekpam Kamala Yairipok Thambalnu For her ability to absorb herself into the character and situation, and to render the song "Ita Manja Kada Chatlani ..." with a deep emotion of human feelings.

WINNER

Best Lyrics

Bachaspatimayum Jayantakumar Sharma Yairipok Thambalnu For sensational creation of the Ita Manja Kada Chatlani ... with its poetic height, expressing in-depth human agony of seperation.

WINNER

Best Make-up

Ngangbam Swarnajit Paap For his competence in respect of make-up to suit the scenes and characters in the film.

WINNER

Best Male Playback Singer

Nongmaithem Pahari Yairipok Thambalnu For rendering melodious voice towards the depth of human emotions through the beats of Khongjom Parava ballad in the song Ha Thambal Nungshirabee.

WINNER

Best Music Direction

Nameirakpam Tiken Mayophy Gee Macha For his melodious and harmonic music which interweaves the traditional music of Meitei and Tangkhul communities with the modern music and creates a harmonious blend.

WINNER

Best Non-Feature Film

Keibul Lamjao National Park For its urgent message with an analytical information on typical floating park, the only abode of the endangered species, Sangai (Cervus Eldi Eldi), and its environmental problems through an appealing film form.

WINNER

Best Screenplay

Kongbrailatpam Ibohal Sharma Sambal Wangma For designing and structuring a screenplay from an imaginative, aesthetic and cinematic angle to expose the social structures of Meitei, Kabui and Tankhul communities and its co-existance and ideal value of humanity.

WINNER

Best Story

Lamabam Kamal Madhabee For depicting the human side of the new social change in the make of modern education and contact with the outside world in his beautiful poetic style.

WINNER

Best Supporting Actor

N. Rajen Khonthang For realistic portrayal of an ideal character of Ibohal with varied needs and situations.

WINNER

Best Supporting Actress

Ashem Ongbi Bimola Madhabee For depicting competingly the role of Thambal, the mother of Urirei, who suffers under grilling criminal antisocial might.

WINNER

Feature Film

Thambal

Non-Feature Film

Meitei Pung
Pena
Orchids of Manipur

Special Jury Award as SANYOLA

Laishram Pishak Mayophy Gee Macha For excellent portrayal of a Tangkhul old women.

WINNER