Ragi: Kana: Ko: Bonga Buru
(Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda)

Santhali, Hindi/ EST/55mins/1999
Producer: Shriprakash

Subject Focus: Uranium mining and its deadly impact on the tribal people living near Jadugoda, Jharkhand.

Summary: The film Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda is an attempt to record how the lives of the people of Jadugoda have been turned into a veritable hell by UCIL. Made amidst threats and harassments by UCIL authority and the district administration, the film attempts to depict the gross misuse of power by the authority in displacing the original inhabitants in the region, their utter lack of concern for internationally accepted norms and safety precautions in the handling of uranium and its by products; and their callousness towards its disastrous impact on the people and the region.

Producer’s/Director’s Profile: Mr. Shriprakash’s association with filmmaking has been for over a decade. During this phase he has worked under the capacity of cameraman, director as well as scriptwriter. His film Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda, has won the Grand Prize in the Earth Vision Film Festival, Tokyo, 2000, Best Film Award in the Thunder Bird Film Festival, USA, 2001, Second Best Film Award, in the Earth Vision Film Festival, USA 2001, Third Prize in Film South Asia, 1999.