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Eikhoigi Yum

2022 Manipuri film directed by Romi Meitei

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ111729939 ↗
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Eikhoigi Yum (English: Our Home) is a 2022 Manipuri film directed by Romi Meitei. It is jointly produced by Sheetal Chingsu and Romi Meitei under the banner of Thangarakpa Living Frames. The film got official selection at the 22nd Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2022. It was the opening film at the 1st Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival 2022. The film was certified by Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in 2021. The film won the National Film Award For Best Film In Meiteilon at the 69th National Film Awards.

Eikhoigi Yum got official selections at the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala 2022 (International Competition Section); 12th Indian Film Festival of Bhubaneswar 2023, Odisha and 45th Moscow International Film Festival 2023. It was screened on 24 November 2022 at the Sangai Film Festival 2022, which was organised as a part of the Manipur Sangai Festival.

Cast

Ningthoujam Priyojit as Chaoren

Sorri Senjam as Pamheiba, Teacher

Nganthoibi Ningthoujam as Chaoren's mother

Bhumeshore as Chaoren's father

Accolades

Eikhoigi Yum won five awards at the 14th Manipur State Film Awards 2022.

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“Eikhoigi Yum” enters the record as 2022 Manipuri film directed by Romi Meitei. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eikhoigi, Manipuri and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eikhoigi Yum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.