two of them. These films quite unequivocally expose the dirty tricks sometimes played by ruling party politicians in the states, chief ministers to be precise. In the first film, a chief minister engineers a communal riot which leads to considerable losses in lives and properties to score points in the factional struggles against a cabinet colleague. The second film refers to the travails of an adivasi community, arising out of the fact that a chief minister has selected their native place for some 'development' project which, it is explicitly stated by a character in the film, will benefit the kith and kin of the chief minister because of the shooting up of land values. This sparks off a militant agitation by the adivasis which is tackled by police 'bandobast', The film ends with a ghastly close-up of the mutilated face of the leader of the adivasi protest movement