About Myself (2019)

I'm Yoso Shimray.

I was born and raised in Imphal. My favourite things in life are movies, music, and football. Nothing can go wrong for me if I have at least one of these three things.

When I was 10 I dreamt of becoming a professional footballer. An avid football fan, I used to collect newspaper clippings of all my favourite players and maintained scrapbooks. I idolised Frank Lampard. His ability and flair on the football pitch wowed me to the point that I started to copy everything he did. I've been a Chelsea supporter my whole life all thanks to Frank. 

As much as I tried I never made the school team. Then in the seventh standard the doctor told me to quit playing football because of a medical condition. I was gutted. My dream was over.

Then I turned 15, that was when I discovered my passion for music. Me and a couple of like-minded friends formed a band. We called ourselves GRKS. It stood for Geek, Ruse, Kook, Sook, each an assumed moniker for each member. As teenagers, we wrote and sang about young love and teenage angst. Our very first song was titled 'The twist in my story', a narrative about a guy not being able to move on after the girl he loved left him. The song was very popular among the students of our school. By our standards I guess you could say it was a hit, our very first. We wrote and performed many other songs in the school and elsewhere. As time went on the band had to go our separate ways leaving behind great memories which we would cherish forever.

Fast forward to when I turned 20, that was when I found my love for movies and this time I decided that I wanted to become a filmmaker. I watched everything, from the works and masterpieces created by auteurs to Michael Bay's 'explosive' blockbusters, and loved everything. Films were worse than nicotine I discovered. I spent all my spare time watching and studying films. Film school was the dream after college but it never happened. My parents couldn't afford it. But fueled by the Quentin Tarantino quote, 'I didn't go to film school, I went to films.', I'm still working towards achieving that dream.

Perhaps someday.