Hagramayao Jinahari

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]

Hagramayao Jinahari
Directed byJwngdao Bodosa
Story byJwngdao Bodosa
Produced byJwngdao Bodosa
StarringTikendrajit Narzary
Onjali Basumatary
CinematographyJwngdao Bodosa
Edited byJwngdao Bodosa
Release date
  • 1995 (1995)
CountryIndia
LanguageBodo

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 (transl. Nature)

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". Outook. 6 February 2022.
  2. Gokulsing, K. Moti; Dissanayake, Wimal (2013). Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas. Routledge. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-136-77284-9.
  3. Vetticad, Anna M. M. (3 December 2020). "Indian films that sparked the critic in me: Jwngdao Bodosa's Hagramayao Jinahari is a rare window into Bodo life". Firstpost.
  4. Indian Panorama. Directorate of Film Festivals. 2009. p. 108.
  5. Kumar, S. R. Ashok (12 January 1996). "The cream of Indian cinema". The Hindu. p. 26. Archived from the original on 21 December 1996.
  6. Pandey, G. P.; Joshi, Charu; Das, Paromita (2017). Problems and Perspectives of the Relationship between the Media and Human Rights.
  7. Barpujari, Manoj (2 October 2013). "Against odds". Frontline.
  8. Jaiswal, Umanand (23 March 2007). "Bodo films to go national - Assam corporation to hold cinema festival in Calcutta". The Telegraph.
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