By Matters India Reporter

Nashik, August 27, 2020: As India marked the 12th anniversary of anti-Christian violence on this August, a new film on “The Kandhamal Massacre 2008” is in the offing.

Dilip Wagh is the maker of English film: “Warpath—Beyond the Life” (2017) which is based on the journey of an Australian doctor Graham Stuart Staines who served leprosy affected persons in Keonjhar district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

Wagh from Nashik city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra has started shooting for the film on August 26.

“The Kandhamal Massacre 2008” would focus on many people who have given their lives for Jesus Christ, Wagh told Matters India.

India’s worst anti-Christian violence 12 years ago, around 393 churches were destroyed, about 6,500 houses of Christians were destroyed, over 100 Christian people were killed, over 40 Christian women were subjected to rape, molestation, and humiliation, and several educational, social service, and health institutions were destroyed and looted.

Over 12,000 children lost their education and more than 56,000 Christian people were forced to flee from Kandhamal.

The movie is scheduled to be released by March 2021. And it will be produced in collaboration with a city-based NGO ‘Aasha Foundation’.