<h1>Dashavatar film uses folk theatre to drive community resistance against mining threats and streams on ZEE5.</h1> Dashavatar is a 2025 Marathi film about an aging Dashavatar performer who confronts a mining company after his son's suspicious death, using traditional folk performance to mobilise community resistance and highlight threats to Konkan coastal land and heritage. The film combines authentic location shooting and folk practice with cinematic techniques, opened theatrically September 12, 2025, achieved notable box-office success, and became available for streaming on ZEE5 from November 14, 2025.