Music Unites

CNI SBSS’s intervention with the indigenous communities in the state of Jharkhand as virtue of being a part of the ACT Alliance was documented to be a part of the music video shoot. To this effect the team had visited CNI Resource Centre for Tribal Identity & Indigenous Rights and shot footage for their video from two of our intervention area in DBSS Chotanagpur. The team accompanied the CNI SBSS staff to various locations in their intervention areas to capture the life and struggles of the communities. 

On January 21st and 22nd the team from ACT was in Jharkhand for the shoot. Sounds of drums reverberated in the air as the team approached village Sainda in the Sisai block of Gumla district of Jharkhand accompanied by Sean Hawkey, Communications Officer, ACT Development along with his team Sean Woollgar and Jean Jacques Maurage. The sound echoed the cry of the indigenous communities to safeguard their land and identity. 

On their first day of visit to Sainda village the team experienced the warmth and hospitality of the adivasis that is usually extended to the guests. The team spent one complete day interacting with the community, participating in their day to day activities and in the process shooting footage for their video.

The day was well spent with taking shots of traditional musical instruments, the day to day activities like tilling of the land, pulling water from a well, digging the ground, separating rice from its skin etc. Sumptuous meal was laid down on the pattal (green plates made from leaves) and enjoyed by all. The long warm day visit to Sainda aptly ended in the traditional form of relaxation for a farmer....you guessed it right! The guests treated themselves to Mahua and Hadia (local form of beer) and they liked it.

The second day the team went to Kamdara another village in Gumla district and shot footage at a stone quarry, fishing pond and mid day meal at a government school.