Telangana's Pride - Nagoba Jathara

Telangana's Pride - Nagoba Jathara

2019 | 58 minutes |

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Director: Jennifer Alphonse
Awards: Best Female Director & Best Film (Documentary & Indigenous Asians categories) - Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival

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Nagoba Jathara, one of the biggest tribal carnivals in India, is celebrated over ten days. The festival holds great importance to the Raj Gonds, a tribe over 2,000 years old, living in the Adilabad district of Telangana. How does this festival bring villages together? What rituals are observed by the deities? Get all the answers in this rare documentation of the grand but discrete occasion.

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