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Hagramayao Jinahari
Directed by Jwngdao Bodosa


Produced by Jwngdao Bodosa
Starring Tikendrajit Narzary
Onjali Basumatary
Cinematography Jwngdao Bodosa
Edited by Jwngdao Bodosa






Country India
Language Bodo



Hagramayao Jinahari (known internationally as Rape in The Virgin Forest) is a 1995 Indian Bodo-language drama film directed by Jwngdao Bodosa.[1] The film starred Tikendrajit Narzary and Onjali Basumatary.[2] The film was screened at the India International Centre, Delhi in the 1990s.[3] This film was notably the first Bodo-language film to be screened at the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India.[4][5]

The film was a box office success,[6] and it won the National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation.[3] After this film, Onjali Basumatary married Jwngdao Bodosa.[3] The film is not available online.[3]

Plot

Set in the Kokrajhar district,[3] the film is about the Indian government's apathy to deforestation.[7][8]

Cast

Reception

S. R. Ashok Kumar of The Hindu wrote that "Tikendrajit Narzary as the wood cutter and Onjali Basumatary as his daughter have acted convincingly".[5]

References

  1. The North-East Enthrals(6 February 2022).
  2. Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Routledge(2013). ISBN 978-1-136-77284-9
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Indian films that sparked the critic in me: Jwngdao Bodosa’s Hagramayao Jinahari is a rare window into Bodo life, Vetticad, Anna M. M.(3 December 2020).
  4. Indian Panorama{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Directorate of Film Festivals(2009)
  5. 5.0 5.1 The cream of Indian cinema, Kumar, S. R. Ashok(12 January 1996).
  6. Problems and Perspectives of the Relationship between the Media and Human Rights{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(2017)
  7. Against odds, Barpujari, Manoj(2 October 2013).
  8. Bodo films to go national - Assam corporation to hold cinema festival in Calcutta, Jaiswal, Umanand(23 March 2007).