Santali Film Mp3

[Elia Khensamphanh]

Twoyears ago, I blogged about discovering a ministry called Create International, an offshoot of Youth With a Mission that is making films for people groups most of us have never heard of. Because I have seen the Lord use motion pictures to reach literally millions for the Gospel, I was jazzed to learn that, through this organization, people groups such as the Hui, Issan, Aceh, Bamar, Awandi and Balinese were watching Gospel films in their own languages, and not using subtitles.

Recently, I caught up with Pastor Daniel Kikawa, a consultant, teacher and trainer working with Create International, to get an update on how a new Create International film in the Santali language (which is predominantly spoken in India) was reaching people for Christ.

Kikawa: The film is about a Santali Christian who rejects his culture and his people to become a Christian. Through his journey he realizes that the Creator God of the Santali is the same Creator God of the Bible. That there is only one Creator God and that Jesus Christ was sent to reconcile us back to Him. Not to a foreign god, but to our Santali God, the God of all people.

Kikawa: We did the filming in his village and his father plays the native head man and Sushil plays that figure in the movie that rejected his culture. [After the filming and partly because of its message] his father got baptized and the following year he passed away.

Surya Singh Besra, the director of RASCA announced the launch of santali film awards, at a meeting held on February 3, 2008.[1]RASCA's major achievement is that it arranges an award programme for Santali Films each year on 5 May, in which persons related to Santali Films are awarded with certificates, trophies and cash.

Award programme was not organised in the year 2009 due to parliamentary elections, & in 2010 due to inadequate number films for nominations, which broke the continuity of organising the award programme each year.[4]

2nd RASCA Award was organised in 2011 after a gap of 2 yrs,[4][5][6] which became the starting point of continuity, for organising the award programme each year. The award programme was held at Michael John Auditorium, Bistupur.[2][7]

Santali cinema, also known as Sollywood, has its presence in the Indian states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Orissa, and parts of Nepal (especially Jhapa District and Morang District), where Santals live. Santali films are made in the Santali language.

The history of Santali cinema seems to be little unknown or disputed. Before 2000, most of the Santali films were simultaneously or partially re-shot with Bengali films. Or many Bengali films were dubbed and released in Santali, which continue to this day. The chapter of Santali cinema began in the 1980s, when few Santali films were commercially successful at regional level. While Santali cinema may not have gained mainstream popularity compared to other regional film industries in India, it plays a significant role in representing and preserving the cultural diversity of the Santali community. The industry continues to evolve, and with increasing access to technology and platforms, Santali filmmakers have more opportunities to reach a wider audience and promote their unique stories and perspectives.

Santali cinema has not been able to create an identity as a film industry like most other cinemas in India. Every year about 8 to 10 films are made and released directly, on CDs only. None of them are released in cinema halls, due to low budget and least support of state government in development of the cinema. Music albums are preferred over video films, as the budget is very low and production cost is easily recovered. The number of these ranges from 10 to 20.

Santali cinema has a good scope in the states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam and Odisha the majority of its viewers reside in these regions. Although some initiatives have been taken to support Santali cinema,[2][3] allowing it to prosper, only three films managed to make it to the big screen as of 2013[update]: Chando Likhon,[4][5][6][7] which was released in 2001, was the first film to be made on 35 mm movie film; second in this series was Sagun Ena Sohag Dular (2003),[8] which was loosely based on the 1982 Bollywood film Nadiya Ke Paar; Jewee Jurie (Life Partner) (2009)[9][10] was produced by SBT Movie Craft and released widely in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and others. Bonodal (The Change) (2016),[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] Nepal's first historic Santali feature film, was produced and directed by Kiran Khatiwada.[19][20][21][22]

In 2008, first international platform for Santali films was launched in Jamshedpur by Dashrath Hansda.[23] Same year, RASCA launched a website.[24] As there is no film development corporation in Jharkhand, the Santali film industry is in an unremarkable position, and due to this, films and music albums are made less in number and distributed inefficiently, due to cost and other reasons. In Jharkhand, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur and their surroundings, don't have proper cinema halls and ticket prices are very low compared to multiplexes all over India. So releasing a film in cinema halls is not very profitable.

Directors Shyama Sundar Majhi of Balasore district and Deepak Kumar Beshra of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha have created ripples in the cine world with their films, which, interestingly, were made amidst hope and hopelessness about the end result.

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