The film is about an ongoing peasant movement in Singur village,
to save their farm land (1000 acres) from being acquired
by the state of West Bengal in India for a car manufacturing
factory by an industrial giant. This fertile land produces at
least 4 crops per year. Wasting it on industry will completely
destroy the bio-diversity and ecology of the land and rob
50000 people of their livelihoods. The new factory is scheduled
to employ a maximum of 1000 people. The people's right
to information is being violated at every step. The government
has not given them any information at all, about the
proposed factory and land-use. It has unofficially banned
media reports on the real crisis, using the media as a propaganda
tool. The government of West Bengal, run by a coalition
of Left parties of the so called world's largest democracy,
is using police and paramilitary forces to brutally quell any
kind of protest.
Sceneggiatura / Screenplay Ladly Mukhopadhaya
Fotografia (colore) / Photography (colour) Ladly Mukhopadhaya
Montaggio / Editing Indrajit Das
Produzione / Production FreeBird Productions
Anno di produzione / Year of production 2007
Durata / Running time 40’
Formato / Format DVCAM
Ladly Mukhopadhaya
Ladly Mukhopadhaya has about 25
years experience as a film and media
professional all over India and
abroad. He has directed short films,
television programmes, telefilms,
over 200 documentaries, corporate
films, music videos and commercials,
for many of which he has also
been the cinematographer. As director
and cinematographer he made
2001 a feature film, Shuorani Duorani,
based on a popular fairy tale.
He is vice-president of the Broadcast
Quality Technicians and Workers'
Association of Kolkata and proprietor
of the FreeBird Productions of
Kolkata. He is currently working for
Central Institute of Indian Languages
on a series of 5 documentary films
about Rabindranath Tagore and 3
documentary films about a legendary
family who influenced the
modern theatre movement in West
Bengal and India. He is also singer
and instrumentalist. |
