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Oonga braves his way across forests, rivers and roads, hitching stolen rides on cars past valleys dug up for industrialization... along under-construction highways... until he reaches
Lohabad. This world is much larger, brighter and faster than where he came from. After being denied entry he sneaks
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When he emerges after the play, Oonga believes he has become Rama! Painted blue, he returns to
Pottacheru, unaware that he is now returning not to the home he left behind, but to a battlefield where the ‘company’ will do anything to take the adivasi's land away from them to mine it for Bauxite.
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praised the cinematography and music, and commented favourably on Raju Singh's performance, while Saibal
Chaterjee from Civil Society Online said that the film "is remarkably free from the good-versus-evil narrative dynamics that define mainstream Hindi cinema."
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The story of Oonga found its seed in a small anecdote
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He is stunned to see that Rama is everything that the adivasi are - gentle, brave, a forest dweller and protector of mother-earth Sita. Except, he is also blue! Oonga gapes in awe as this blue hero saves Sita from the demon king
398:"does a pretty good job explaining why the regional police and the Naxalites, Maoist-inspired guerrillas coming from native tribes, are in a standoff in modern India"; she also praised the cinematography and the actors.
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