His documentaries and shorts are stories of the mountain terrain reality and upheavals not found in the plains. One of his first feature length documentaries, Phum Shang (A Floating Life), is about a very special fishing community. In the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, close to its border with Myanmar, is the Loktak Lake—home to a fishing community which lives on water, amidst the graceful ambience of nature. The floating land mass, known as phumdis, are grouped together; and the lake dwellers, as always, have constructed shanties on it. The backdrop to this almost-surreal tale is the real-life intervention by the government in 2011, which saw homes destroyed and villagers forcibly evicted and left destitute. The documentary is a look into the life of this fishing community against this backdrop of displacement.