Meghachandra Kongbam is a film critic, academician, and activist based in Imphal and Delhi. He won the Golden Lotus Award for Best Film Critic at the 63rd National Film Awards in 2015. With a PG degree in Journalism from Banaras Hindu University and a film appreciation course from FTII Pune, he has written on cinema for four decades. President of the Film Society of Manipur, he has served on juries at numerous international film festivals. He authored the book “Manipuri Cinema” in 2021.