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Manda Leima

Indian actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ107361605
Source-derived summary

Manda Leima is an actress who appears in Manipuri films. Angangba Kurao Mapal, Lallasi Pal, Kaboklei, Inga Nonglakta, Nangna Mama Oibiyu and Lanphamda Ibeni are some of her notable films.

She served as Jury at 16th Manipur State Film Awards. Manda Leima was the face of Shingju Festival 2020.

Career

Lallasi Pal, Nongallabasu Thaballei Manam and Lanphamda Ibeni, Kaboklei are some of her works.

In 2020, she appeared in the non-feature Nawa Seidum directed by Lawrence Chandam. The film got selection in the Micro Film Finalist at the Indie Short Fest, Los Angeles, 2020. It also bagged the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Tagore International Film Festival 2020 and Best Narrative Film in Moment International 2020.

Accolades

Manda Leima was conferred the 1st Late P. Kenedy Memorial Filmfare Award 2004 by the Educated Unemployed Self-Service Association, Moirang.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Manda Leima” as indian actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Manda, Leima and Indian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as indian actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107361605. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from Manda Leima” 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.