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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

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[edit | edit source]

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

Cast[edit | edit source]

  • Tikendrajit Narzary as Budang
  • Onjali Basumatary as Mithingga (transl. Nature)

Reception[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

  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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 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. ↑ 5.0 5.1 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.