Kohima, May 18: The posters of his films may be better than the final products, but nobody is complaining.

Ajay Kumar, described variously as a film director who also acts, a one-man entertainment industry and a pioneer, is providing a source of enjoyment in a state where evenings are otherwise spent discussing insurgency or the peace process.

Most of Ajay?s films are in Nagamese, the lingua franca that binds the many tribes inhabiting Nagaland, and shot with a handycam. ?Apart from earnings from cinema tickets, I have already sold more than 4,000 CDs,? says the 37-year-old entertainer, who was born in Dibrugarh town of neighbouring Assam.

There are others, too, in the business. L. Murry has been making films in Nagamese for over a decade now, but he is admittedly not a ?hit? anymore.

On the other hand, Ajay, who has seven productions in English, Nagamese and Hindi to his credit, has struck the right chord in the audience with each film. ?I have been doing this since 1990. My first film was Revengelobo and now my film Mafia Gang is a hit,? he says.

?Local? films are mostly screened in dingy video parlours, though a few are made for the big screen, too.

By any yardstick, Mafia Gang is a slipshod production without a clear-cut script and comprehensible dialogue. The actors are all residents of Dimapur and rumoured to have happily played roles in the film for free.

In contrast to the quality of the film, the posters are glossy and the CD jackets have been procured from Calcutta.

All of Ajay?s productions have been shot with a handycam or a beta camera such as the Sony 3CCD model. The editing has been done in Imphal.

In Mafia Gang, Ajay plays Abbas Khan, the villain who ogles at the heroine and flashes a plastic gun without a nozzle.

The hero, Munna, is six feet tall, sings songs in Nagamese and fights the villain with gusto.

Though the film does not represent much of Naga culture, Ajay believes he is inspiring local youth to do something more than ?gallivanting?. His next film, Thrungpuh Amuzho (Knowing the love of God), is in the Yimchungru dialect and will be screened at the town hall in Tuensang soon.

The film is sponsored by the Yimchungru Baptist Church. ?It was approved by the tribe?s elders,? the director informs.

Ajay does not spend any money on scriptwriters, depending solely on wife Narola Jamir. It also does not matter to him that the audience sometimes laughs when a scene is supposed to make them cry. ?I want to continue making films for the rest of my life,? he says.