So when the state turned over 187 hectares (460 acres) of forest for a planned refinery near Badama, a plot the same size had to be found for the Forest Department.

ECONOMIST: Poverty in India

The narrator becomes a young boy (alternately played by Noah Radcliffe and Jack Broderick) who wanders into a nearby forest to escape a family argument and gets swept up in the fast-unfolding plot, in which Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who brought down the beanstalk) run collectively afoul of a witch, a wolf and a giant.

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