For centuries our stories had been orally told and that was restricted to only till the mind and imagination and we could never see them but just hear them. Those days we had no special tools or advanced technology; it was an agrarian society, yet these stories had been told for ages and passed on from one generation to the other generation however they always remained inside. Listening to stories from older generations since childhood days had always been my passion and I consider all these older generations as my heroes; one of the reasons they had always been my heroes is the reason they could share the emergence of their experiences and imagination. They look at the same thing but shared different experiences and opinions that windowed my perceptions.

The construction of indigenous culture by others had always been looked from their own perspectives and their own opinions. The camera and the intervention of digital technology has redefined indigenous society from an indigenous perspective. Cinema has created a new revolution that started telling humanity that indigenous people have their own story and their own self representation. In view of Fr. P.J Joseph a renowned film scholar and Kokborok film maker, when he looks at the man and woman, a boy and a girl in Tripura, they are actors in themselves they do not need additional training, they are being themselves and that is sufficiently resonant, they do not need to put on a different face or they do not need to be trained themselves to look like someone else, their stories should be told as it is with the intention to portray the people as they are.

The primary concern of this website is to document the society, the people, their stories, their cultures, their movies, songs, their struggles, their concerns and what benefits the society is that they could get from this initiative is that Kokborok culture cinema global explores to archive all the materials collected during the course of undertaking a practice based PhD from AJK MCRC Jamaia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Kokborok and tribal culture of Tripura has always been a generative arena for new ideas and approaches to film making. Each information and material is an integral part of a community’s history, language, tradition and culture that are required to be preserved for the upcoming generation.

(Sunil Kalai is a Ph.D. research scholar from AJK MCRC Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is also an assistant professor of Journalism and Mass Communication in Tripura Tripura University and a Kokborok filmmaker. His research area looks at the emergence of culture across the Kokborok cinema.)