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Devashish Makhija’s 2013 film Oonga (starring Raju Singh, Nandita Das and Seema Biswas) received critical acclaim around the world, but never had a commercial release in India. Now, Makhija, 42...
This powerful film-to-novel sits deep in the clash between adivasis, naxalites, the CRPF and a rapacious mining company. But at the heart is little Oonga. Desperate to see a performance of ‘Sitaharan’, he goes on an epic journey to the big city – to return as the blue adivasi prince of the forest, Rama himself!
Little adivasi Oonga misses his village school trip to see the ‘Ramayana’. Upset about being the only kid in his tribal village Pottacheru who has not yet seen the mythical warrior-king ‘Rama’, Oonga runs away, embarking on a long adventurous journey to the big city of Lohabad.
Read an excerpt from Devashish Makhija’s book, Oonga. The story, based on the 2013 film of the same name, follows a young Adivasi boy who becomes obsessed with local stagings of the...
Oct 23, 2021 · The filmmaker’s debut novel Oonga, an adventure story about a little Adivasi boy fighting to save his village, wins the 2021 Neev Book Award in the YA category
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May 3, 2013 · With Raju Singh, Seema Biswas, Priyanka Bose, Nandita Das. Little tribal boy runs off on a long journey to the big city to watch the Ramayana that his friends saw but he missed, unaware that his little village is being forced to give up its land for bauxite mining.
Mar 6, 2021 · In the midst of all this is Oonga, who wants nothing more than to metamorphose into his hero, Rama. Only, this Rama is the prince of the forest, fighting to rescue his bride, the daughter of the...
