The Assam chief minister recently declared that neither Bengali-origin nor ethnic Assamese Muslims qualify for the scheme. Legislators and experts contest this.
The plot progresses through a fierce confrontation of power in the forms of the King, who symbolises the oppressor of both humans and nature by fear and power, and Nandini, who symbolises nature that restores its equilibrium by shaking everything into its righteous place through beauty, love, and strength of character.