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Oonga is a film of genre Drama with Nandita Das

Oonga (2013)

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Length 1h38
Genres Drama
Rating68% 3.432363.432363.432363.432363.43236

Oonga is a Hindi and Oriya film directed by Devashish Makhija, and produced by Speaking Tree Pictures & Moo Print Pictures. It is a story of a little adivasi boy's obsession with becoming Rama, set against the backdrop of corrupt land mining activities threatening to destroy his village and the civil strife it leads to. The film stars Nandita Das, Seema Biswas, Salim Kumar and Raju Singh (as Oonga).

Oonga had its world premiere at the New York Indian Film Festival on 3 May 2013; and was screened in the 'India Gold' section at the 15th Mumbai Film Festival; the 13th River to River Florence Indian film festival 2013 and the Indian film festival at Melbourne 2014. Oonga is also a part of the international competition at the International Film Festival of Kerala 2014

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Nandita Das

(Hemla)
Seema Biswas

(Laxmi.)
Salim Kumar

(Kunja/Tramp)
Alyy Khan

(Manoranjan)
Vipin Sharma

(Pradip)
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