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Mage Porob (2019 documentary)
About this film
Mage Porob is a documentary film by Subhashish Panigrahi that was made in 2018 and was released in 2019. It follows the festive life of the Ho community in eastern India. The film's namesake Mage Porob is the most important festival of the Ho people, and to some extent the other Munda people of which the Ho community is a part of. According to the Ho genesis legend, Sing bonga (IPA: siŋg bɔŋgaː, Romanization: siṅg baṅgā), the god of creation created Luku kola , the first man on the earth. Mage porob is a celebration to pay tribute to Sing bonda. This film was shot around the time of the year when the villagers of the Keshpada village in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, India were in a festive mood. Women cleaned the houses and prepared fresh rasi , a rice-based fermented alcohol and the sal trees were on full bloom. Rasi is not just a beverage and it is not any beverage for solo drinking. The film would allow the audience to immerse themselves in the tight-knit Ho culture that ensures how men and women respectfully offer rasi to each other. The film's storyline also follows the sacred worship of " guan bunga " , the cattleshed worship by a family elder. When the rasi starts settl…
Directors & creators
Subhashish Panigrahi
Subjects
mage porob, ho, odisha, indigenous, endangered, mayurbhanj, keshpada
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