People from the Northeast who live in cities in mainland India are at the receiving end of this racism almost every single day. They are taunted, laughed at, called names for their looks, dressing sense and eating habit. They are perceived as outsiders, not Indians.
It is this ‘othering’ that the new Bollywood film ‘Axone’ tackles. Written and directed by Nicholas Kharkongor, the film stars Sayani Gupta, Lin Laishram, Tenzin Dalha, Vinay Pathak and Dolly Ahluwalia.