Khamma Gir Ne is a documentary film in Gujarati focusing on Gir, Lions, and Maldharis. I have been working on this film for last 3 years and by now I have shot about 1500 hours of footage. Everything in Gir is not well as been projected by the department and administration. Lions are moving out of Gir and venturing in too people dominated landscape in search of food water and shelter. Human and Lion conflict is on rising and incidences of the lion and human deaths have increased many folds in the last couple of years. On the other hands Maldharis of Gir who have lived with lion peacefully for centuries, are forced to leave Gir in search of fodder for their livestock. They are deprived of basic human rights of Food, Shelter, Education and Medical Health. Gir has lost its original habitat and now is exploited in various ways such as illegal grazing, illegal lion shows, illegal mining to name few. Our effort is to highlight these issues on an international platform by participating in prominent and reputed international film festivals.
We have also made 3 awareness film to reduce the human and lion conflict. Many more will follow at the regular intervals.
As a part of awareness and promotion in local communities, we are making 5 songs (Music videos) capturing the essence of the subject. subscribe our channel for all future uploads.
After completion of this film, we are also planning to start a social organization to take the mission forward.