New Delhi, March 10 -- Lakshmipriya Devi, the director of Boong, India's first BAFTA-winning film, has revealed she broke down repeatedly while editing the footage - because the locations she had filmed in had been destroyed by the ethnic conflict raging through Manipur.

Lakshmipriya Devi, speaking to PTI, said it took months before she could watch her own material. "I could not edit the film for a very long time. I would break down every time I would see the footage. Knowing that the entire second half of the film was shot in places that were now in rubble... it affected me. It took a couple of months before I could look at the footage objectively from a distance."

Boong last month became the first Indian film to win a BAFTA, taking th...