{"id":2295700,"date":"2026-02-23T16:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2295700"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:57:19","slug":"indias-narendra-modi-congratulates-boong-filmmakers-on-surprise-bafta-win-for-manipur-set-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/indias-narendra-modi-congratulates-boong-filmmakers-on-surprise-bafta-win-for-manipur-set-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Narendra Modi Congratulates \u2018Boong\u2019 Filmmakers On Surprise BAFTA Win For Manipur-Set Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Indian Prime Minister <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5177533\/\">Narendra Modi<\/a> has joined a chorus of congratulatory messages for the team behind coming of age-of-tale Boong for its BAFTA win in the Children and Family category on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to all those associated with this film. This is indeed a moment of immense joy, especially for Manipur. It also highlights the immense creative talent in our nation,\u201d wrote the Hindu nationalist politician.<\/p>\n<p>The first feature of Indian director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1958198\/\">Lakshmipriya Devi<\/a>, Boong follows a young boy left wondering about the whereabouts of his father against the backdrop of ethnic tensions in the Manipur region in northeastern India.<\/p>\n<p>The film wrapped its shoot in Manipur in 2023, just weeks before a flare-up in violence between the Meitei people and the Kuki-Zo tribal community in the region bordering Myanmar, which has since left hundreds dead and at least 60,000 people displaced.<\/p>\n<p>There was surprise on Sunday evening at the film&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has joined a chorus of congratulatory messages for the team behind coming of age-of-tale Boong for its BAFTA win in the Children and Family category on Sunday evening. \u201cCongratulations to all those associated with this film. This is indeed a moment of immense joy, especially for Manipur. It also highlights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2295701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2295700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Indias-Narendra-Modi-Congratulates-\u2018Boong-Filmmakers-On-Surprise-BAFTA-Win.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295702,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295700\/revisions\/2295702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}