Date:12/10/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/10/12/stories/2007101250280200.htm

Kerala

The message is loud and clear

The message is being sounded loud and clear. The agitation of residents of Plachimada in Palakkad for their right to clean and safe drinking water has been documented well.

Now, a film by filmmaker-duo C. Saratchandran and P. Baburaj – 1000 Days and a dream – is going places. It has been selected for the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles being organised by the South Asian International Fi lm Festival, the 16th Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival and the 7th River to River Florence Indian Film Festival to be held at Florence, Italy.

The film follows the duo’s first film on the issue, The Bitter Drink, which recorded the origins of the struggle. Taking off from where they left it in the first film, they track the evolution of the struggle in 1000 Days and a dream, from a trickle of protest by locals for their survival to a protest that was celebrated by political parties, media and the intelligentsia. The fight that a remote village in the State took up against a corporate giant with global footing is again being heard of in the world canvas.

Anand Haridas