Mahua Memoirs

Vinod Raja
India, documentary, 2007
80 mins. (MiniDV)
(Jondadurai, Jue, Oriya, Ho Chattisgarhi, Telugu)

Through stories and songs the film unravels and unfolds the struggles of the Adivasis or the tribes against the state and the mining companies. When a nation gegins to grow rapicly at over 9 percent, what does this mean for 8 percent of people, who remin unseen and unheard?