The film is located in Kanha in Madhya Pradesh. Kanha because it’s probably the most famous Tiger park in the world and secondly it is also from where the first of the adivasis were relocated in the early ‘70s.
Kanha is always presented as one of the best case study of people relocation for conservation. We would like to map the real story of Kanha.
The film meets Sardar, a Baiga who is a vast source of knowledge on medicinal plants but today laments the loss of control. We spend a night in the middle of a paddy field and get a first hand look into wild animals depredating crops - laying waste a whole year’s hard work. We meet Sona Bai, now 60, who recounts how she was thrown out of her village Aurai, inside the Kanha park in the monsoon of ’72…….how she had to sell everything to settle her family again. Finally the film