| Directed by | Jwngdao Bodosa
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|---|---|
| Produced by | Jwngdao Bodosa |
| Starring | Tikendrajit Narzary Onjali Basumatary |
| Cinematography | Jwngdao Bodosa |
| Edited by | Jwngdao Bodosa
|
| Country | India |
| Language | Bodo
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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
- Tikendrajit Narzary as Budang
- Onjali Basumatary as Mithingga (Template:Translation)
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
- ↑ The North-East Enthrals(6 February 2022).
- ↑ Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Routledge(2013). ISBN 978-1-136-77284-9
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Indian Panorama{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Directorate of Film Festivals(2009)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The cream of Indian cinema, Kumar, S. R. Ashok(12 January 1996).
- ↑ Problems and Perspectives of the Relationship between the Media and Human Rights{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(2017)
- ↑ Against odds, Barpujari, Manoj(2 October 2013).
- ↑ Bodo films to go national - Assam corporation to hold cinema festival in Calcutta, Jaiswal, Umanand(23 March 2007).