Vidya Balan in Sherni (2021) | Abundantia Entertainment/T-Series/Amazon Prime Video
Vidya Balan says she is scared of creepy-crawlies, but that didn’t prevent her from playing a forest officer in
Sherni.
Newton director Amit Masurkar’s new film places Balan’s character at the centre of human-animal conflict. Also starring Vijay Raaz, Mukul Chadha and Neeraj Kabi,
Sherni will be streamed on Amazon Prime Video on June 18.
How would you describe Vidya Vincent’s journey in ‘Sherni’?
The story explores the man-animal conflict seen through the eyes of forest officer Vidya Vincent, played by me. This is a largely male-dominated profession, but there are lots of female forest officers and many take postings in the jungle where they are away from their families, alone in the jungle.
Trees in a forest may be more altruistic than we might think.
In “The Hidden Life of Trees,” German forester and author Peter Wohlleben writes about the stump of a beech tree likely cut down 400 to 500 years earlier.
It is still alive and has not decayed, apparently because nearby trees provide sugar through their roots. Trees in a forest nourish sick ones, hopefully, until they recover.
“The reasons are the same as for human communities: There are advantages to working together,” Wohlleben writes.
If many trees die and the forest thins, strong winds tend to sweep through. If the summer sun directly reaches the forest floor, the soil dries out.
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In his new book, Jonathan Meiburg argues that the striated caracara has an unique mind, and is :an incredible example of the flexibility of the world of birds to produce different kinds of minds and intelligences.