# A Village Story with Universal Resonance: Cinema and Colonial Famines

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2107770497043959844
- Source account: [@SureshPRO\_](https://x.com/SureshPRO_)
- Source language: Telugu
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:29
- Published: 2026-10-07
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines) This has nothing at all to do with independence Hmm, okay. or India's freedom struggle.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=3) Okay. Because the characters I portray in Ranabali have no idea how large the country really is.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=9) Hmm. For them, it's their village and the surrounding hamlet. At most, they may not know where Madras is.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=16) They're characters who think it's somewhere at the edge of the earth, and beyond that, there are only oceans.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=19) That's how they are. Hmm. So these characters have no sense of nationhood.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=24) What they understand is that this film is like micro to mac—macro to mic— sorry, it's kind of a micro-to-macro Hmm. relationship. A village itself is a country.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=31) Hmm. Your village, your boundaries, your people, whatever attitude you have toward protecting them, applies to the country.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=37) Hmm. That's the philosophy. Hmm. But it isn't about all of India.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=42) However— Oh! Okay. This point resonates with every village.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=46) That means it is a problem that has crushed every village in India.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=49) Mm. This is the wound every state bears. Every…

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=53) Whatever culture you go into, they— because the British didn’t cause only the Madras famine. There were about 30 such famines.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=60) Oh, God! And every state was affected. So, Go to any village and ask about their ancestors’ stories, and you’ll find famine in them.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=67) They suffered through famine so terribly. So many people died.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=70) There are those stories, those statistics.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=71) A man-made famine. A man-made famine, especially one caused by the British. So, it’s a story everyone can relate to.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=77) So I would never say this is the story of this country. It is the story of a village.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=80) Mm. So, every village’s story is reflected in it. So, if every village has a Ranabali, how would they connect?

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3hhF746IuqZ7/en/a-village-story-with-universal-resonance-cinema-and-colonial-famines?t=86) So, it is a universal story like that.