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Wira Pdika (or, in Odia, Matiro Poko, Company Loko, both meaning 'Earth Worm, Company man') is a 124-minute 2005 film independently produced and directed by Samarendra Das and Amarendra Das, characterised by the reviewer Subrat Kumar Sahu as 'a milestone in terms of authenticity in documentary filmmaking'.[1]
It is in the Kui language and documents the struggles of Adivasi people in Odisha against mining of bauxite in their region. The documentary sits in the work of Samarendra Das alongside his academic book, co-authored with Felix Padel, Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel (to which it also provides the image on the cover).[2]
- ^ Subrat Kumar Sahu, 'Where Earth Worms Struggle for a Piece of Soil', India Committee of the Netherlands / Landelijke India Werkgroep (6 August 2007).
- ^ New Delhi: Orient Black Swan, 2010. Cf. Shin Sojin, 'The State, Society, and Foreign Capital in India: Ideas, Interests and Institutional Changes Favoring Foreign Direct Investment in Tamil Nadu and Odisha' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, National University of Singapore, 2014), p. 171-72.