Yarwng is a 2008 Kokborok feature film produced by Don Bosco Sampari Pictures Tripura, written and directed by Joseph Pulinthanath.
[1] The story of the 95-minute feature film revolves round the large-scale displacement which happened in Tripura state, in northeast India, when the newly built Dumbur dam (1970s) submerged huge areas of arable land in the fertile Raima valley about 40 years ago.
[5][6] Yarwng depicts the lives of ordinary people striving to preserve their humanity in the face of abrupt social change and economic desperation.
Yarwng is based on true events of displacement and resettlement problem of Indigenous Tripuri people caused by the Dumbor Hydel Power Project commissioned in 1976 by the Indian Government.
The film examines the aftermath of the Dam construction over the confluence Raima-Saima River on the local people socio-economic, relationships and loss of home.