Empowered with Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), soldiers have brutalised, raped, murdered many lives in places like Kashmir and Manipur.  Irom Sharmila has completed her 12 years of her protest against the act, but the world is deaf and blind still. 

A.F.S.P.A why don't you go fuck yourself? - Akhu

Titled 'PROGRAM CANCELLED' is about our most loved idea of cancelling any culture which seems unfamiliar/unknown 🚫, giving us very a small room of reformation & it has been so evident in Manipur and has been there from long before the 'Cancel Culture' of the social media era. 
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>> While cancellation restricts a healthy growth, it encourages a dirty one <<
Some examples will be - #Prohibition of alcohol sales & its consumption (a joke). 
#Prohibition of performance, watching & listening of Hindi-based movies/programs (another joke)
#DJ-ing 🤨 (even though a lot of people talke about it but we never considered this to be a cancelled culture).
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We are born dancers, poets, musicians, singers, painters, we are born a joyful soul. Guide us, but let's not cancel it. 🚫 

Mad love to KAMAL LAISHRAM of the band 'HOIRONG' for the Guitar riff and help with the Bassline .

Program Cancelled

just recorded as fun. it was kinda treat to ourselves who were seriously engaged with the festival Where have All The Flowers gone? a tribute to late American Folk singer/activist Pete Seeger. The Song talks about electric post that are deprived of electricity and compared them with electric poles in VIP colonies. we are tired of singing about men and women. why not sing about rivers and electric poles. 
Akhu: Vocals, Guitars, Harmonica
Singthoi: Cajon
Anku :  Yu heiba
Yaiphaba : burnt the mosquito coil
Chinglemba: Missing Boy

electric post

Eise Eini Kaorurey

Lamja

Meira Paibi

Mangkhi Uba Ngamdana

Fake Encounter - Imphal Talkies

TAMHOURABI

Chingda Satpi Engellei is a folk song of Manipur. It is a Poet's lament on a  Mountain flower Engellei, wasted by the wind before it could adorn a woman's hair.  

Vocal/Ukulele/Pena - Chaoba Thiyam
Recorded/Mix/mastered by Mocha Kangjam
SIYOM June 2020

Chingda Satpi Engellei Final Master

In december 2010, Imphal talkies shared the song online 
with the following press release
"The world calls her the Iron Lady acknowledging her undying spirit.
Her steadfast fast-unto death, undertaken for more than ten years, to
repeal the Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act from the soil of Manipur
has received international attention. They say there is no room for
killing and violence in a truly democratic country. Indeed, they say,
there is no room for suppression and oppression in a truly liberated
country. However, the Indian State refuses to repeal the same Act in
the name of "law" and "order". Instead, she's been declared as a
proclaimed offender and a criminal numero uno, forced-fed and
imprisoned in a high security prison.

Human rights continue to be violated. Lives continue to be taken away.
And mournful wails of widows and orphans reverberate in the valley and
hills of Manipur.

She's the one and only person who defies the might of the Indian state.

She is truly the embodiment of the triumph of the human spirit and the
icon of peace and human rights."
-------------English translation----
It's been 10 years
They kept you under captive
In jails, courts, hospitals

Eche.

Haven't stopped

Firing their guns

Haven't stopped

Publishing in papers

...

The deaths.




It's been long since

They've been killing each other

Have killed many an innocent lots

...

Eche




From Eche's story alone

May the universe partake,

...

Life




[Oh wind! Blow the words of Eche's poems

To the reach of the sky

Among the clouds] x 2




[Let it shower as the monsoon rain

Let it wash the bloodstains] x 2




[Riff]




It's been 10 years

They've killed ten of them

They're not yet pigged out or satiated

...

Eche.




Haven't stopped sending the army troops

Haven't stopped, you and me, too, to die




Let earth and the living

Be drown by your tears

...

Eche




Let your song be immortal

Teach the universe

...

Love




[Amongst the people, dying while living

Truth is just a word

A flower that blooms on the paper] x 2




Refrain:

[Let it shower as the monsoon rain

Your story, your tears] x 2




Refrain:

It's been 10 years

They kept you under captive

In jails, courts, hospitals

...

Eche.




Refrain:

Haven't stopped

Firing their guns

Haven't stopped

Publishing in papers

Eche (For Irom Sharmila) - Imphal Talkies

Nusanz "Heisnam Shantanu" 
Reflective of our times and our generation that does not belong anywhere, does not want to be typecast and chooses to be culturally confused.

Program Cancelled

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