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Original name: Jwlwi - The Seed
English name: Jwlwi - The Seed
Year: 2019
Run time: 90 mins
Language: Bodo
Type (Colour/ Black & white):Colour
Country: India
Director: Rajni Basumatary
Producer: Rajni Basumatary
Cast: Rajni Basumatary, Shimang Chainary
Screenplay: Rajni Basumatary
Editor: Hemanti Sarkar
Sound Designer: Amrit Pritam
Music Composer: Avinash Baghel
Costume Designer: Sansri Basumatary
Production Designer: Monali Bharadwaj
Production Company: Manna Films
World Sales: Rajni Basumatary
World Sales Phone: +91 9810284275
World Sales Email:rajnibasumatary@gmail.com
Rajni Basumatary is a film maker who writes her scripts and produces them. Along the journey her talent as an actress has come to the fore as well. She belongs to the Bodo community of Assam State in North East India. She strongly believes that culture and creativity can engender social change in communities!
Rajni wrote, directed and co-produced a highly acclaimed feature film, “Raag, the rhythm of love…” in 2014. Her first film as a script writer and producer, "Anuraag" had received several Assam State Film Awards in 2007.
The 2019 film, “Jwlwi - The Seed” has been written, directed, produced by her. She has also acted as the lead protagonist in the film.
Rajni's recent acting experience in successful Indian films include roles in “Mary Kom” (2014), “Shaukeens” (2014), and “III Smoking Barrels” (2018).
She has been active in cultural fields since her school days and has also been involved in various pro-humanitarian projects among victims of ethnic violence and natural calamities primarily in Assam and Kashmir.
Set in Assam's insurgency ridden decades beginning from 90s, "Jwlwi- The Seed" is a story of hope lost and found through resolute perseverance even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Alaari copes with her husband’s death for over a decade who was killed in a cross firing between rebel cadres and state forces. A new concern emerges for Alaari, in the form of Erak, who is now all grown up, when the political climate is heating up with renewed efforts to rebel against the majoritarian state. New reports of young Bodo youth joining the separatist movement inspired in their revolutionary zeal by the thoughts of iconic leaders such as Mao and Guevara gain momentum, yet again.
Could impressionable lad fall under the influence of the rebels? Will he too feel that he can free the community from generations of oppression through the barrel of a gun? Alaari must save the last seed of her family.
