Ajin Paku (Let's be Friends) (2018)

The film is called AJIN PAKU. It vaguely translated as WE ARE FRIENDS. It basically means We, the Mainlanders want to become friends with You, the North-Easterners. We beg you not to treat us as outsiders. We are friends. Brothers. Bhai bhai. This is precisely the idea that this FTII film is supposed to propogate. It is a 20mins shorts; has six languages - Nyishi, Galo, Sepa, Asamese, Hindi, English Synopsis: A non-tribal Assamese family moves in a tribal Arunachali village where the father has been posted as a Bamboo factory supervisor. He admits his son to the local school but the kid is bullied by the local kids of the school for being an outsider and a non-tribal. Feeling dejected, the kid befriends an old drunkard, one of the most hated man in the village. While his father is furious about his son being in company of the village drunk, the kid learns a lot of tricks from the funny old man. Eventually the old man is kicked out of the village by a village mob spearheaded by the father but his spirit lingers on in the kid. In a final climactic sequence, the kid confronts the local kids of his school once again and using one of the old man's tricks he finally befriends them.