Bhukha… (The hungry) or (hunger for culture) ???

“BHUKHA” which was internationally acclaimed as Special Jury Award as the Best Feature Film at “28th Gijjon International Film Festival, Spain”. What I heard from my child-hood… As per my knowledge that one was the first movie in my native language called sambalpuri (dialect of Oriya). That movie was released when I was just 5-6 years old… but I never got a chance to see that movie... Last time when I had been to my native place, I saw this movie …At the late 80’s with a limited technology how a big concept can be described so beautifully in this movie… which forces me to write on that… This is a story about the life of the poverty-stricken folk drummers known as bajaniya… The folk drummers living in an abject poverty…getting a very less wages from their profession… still they are able to keep their culture alive… When society got influence towards the civilization and attracted towards the modern musical instruments… Some of the drummers decided to change their profession … as they can’t feed their children, can’t provide a cloth for their wife… At that time the main character who believes his muhuri (a brass musical instrument) as his god, tried his best to convince them … and failed… “If you want to do something different…what your conscience says to do… and surroundings people can’t understand your thoughts… then people called you maniac…” that’s what happen to the main character of this movie... neither he was able to convince the normal people nor he can change himself… He couldn’t make him away from his muhuri, his god, his culture till the last moment of his life… My view of seeing this movie …is like it’s not a story of hungry people rather the people who are hunger for culture…