Incidentally, the last time a Hindi movie screened at a theatre hall in Manipur was Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – in the late 1990s. The HSA screened Bollywood movies to show its defiance against the ban ...

Hindi cinema returned to strife-torn Manipur on Tuesday after more than 20 years when a Bollywood movie on surgical strikes against Pakistan was screened at a makeshift open air theatre in ...

In September 2000, Manipur's Revolutionary Peoples Front (RPF), fighting for independence for Manipur from Indian rule, issued a notice banning the use of Hindi.

Vicky Kaushal starrer Uri screened in Manipur, first Hindi film to be shown in 23 years After 23 years, the Bollywood movie returned to strife-torn Manipur with a screening of a surgical strike ...

When Mary Kom, a biographical Hindi movie on India’s most decorated women boxer MC Mary Kom who is from Manipur was released in 2014, it wasn’t screened in her home state because of a blanket ...

The HSA further noted that Hindi films have been banned in Manipur for over 20 years now. The last film that was publicly screened, as we understand, was "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" in 1998.

Cinema returned to strife-torn Manipur on Tuesday after more than 20 years when a Bollywood movie on surgical strikes against Pakistan was screened at a makeshift open-air theatre in Churachandpur.

Cinema returned to strife-torn Manipur after more than 20 years when a Bollywood movie on surgical strikes against Pakistan was screened at a makeshift open-air theatre in Churachandpur. Vicky ...