The movie, which earned a special mention at the national awards this year, juxtaposes the predicament of two protagonists, played by Mishra and Ranvir Shorey, who are bearing the brunt of climate change in their respective regions—one in the form of acute drought in Bundelkhand, another owing to cyclones in coastal Orissa. “We talk about jaatiwaad (casteism), this waad (-ism) and that waad, but nobody talks about hariyaliwaad (greenism),” he rues. “Unplanned cities have mushroomed everywhere. People used to live amidst trees in the past, now trees live amidst humans in concrete jungles. Who’s to be blamed? Why can’t the abundant water resources of Bihar be diverted to the parched areas of Rajasthan? Why can’t rainwater be stopped from flowing into the oceans and harvested properly to mitigate the woes of suffering people?”