Naachi Se Baanchi (Dance to Survive)

About the film

This is a film on the life and works of Padmashri Dr. Ram Dayal Munda. He started the Tribal and Regional Language Department of Ranchi University and became the Vice Chancellor. Ram Dayal Munda was the leading intellectual who has contributed to Jharkhand movement immensely. Dr. Munda has represented Adivasi voices in the United Nations. He was awarded with Sangeet Natya Academy Award, 2007 and Padmashri in 2010. He was elected to Rajya Sabha in 2010. The camera has traversed through the protagonist’s personal and public life, a man as a brilliant student, a successful teacher, a poet, a performer, an activist, and a philosopher.

Director Biography

Biju Toppo is one of the first Adivasi filmmakers to have effectively used the camera to counter the misrepresentation of his community by the ‘mainstream’ media. His films have received national and international recognition. Meghnath is an activist who has been working in Jharkhand for the last 30 years. He has been with the people’s struggle against destructive development. As a filmmaker he has tried to document the voice of that section of people who remain unheard. His contribution has been recognized by various institutions.