Oonga (film)
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. Plot 

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. 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 in to watch the play. 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 Ravana. 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. As the Naxalite rebels and the CRPF soldiers go to war over Pottacheru, little Oonga, in his Rama avatar, believes he can save his home from this Ravana seeking to ravage it. 