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Members of the Film Forum Manipur today staged sit-in-protest in front of the office of the Forum at Lamphel, Imphal against monetary demands by some underground groups of the region.
Various proscribed group including KCP (MC) Paikhomba, NRFM and URF (Lalheiba) groups had served monetary demands to the Forum as well as to other Guilds of the Film related activities.
Laimayum Surjakanta Sharma, President of the Film Forum Manipur urged the groups not to consider Film Art as business and appealed them to withdraw the monetary demands served by them.
Following the monetary demands and threats all film related activities including screening of film, film shooting etc. Has been suspended since last Wednesday.
