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Chaliyar…
The
Final Struggle
1958: The Government of Kerala, persuadues the Birlas to open a factory
in Mavoor, North Kerala.
The GRASIM rayon pulp factory is open
for the last 38 years. Thousands of workers earn their living trading
future lives for the present. The fumes wing their way to the neighbourhood
spreading disease and death. Effluents gurgle into the Chaliyar
River poisoning everything on its way to the sea.
At a time when environmental activism was unheard of, a man
leads his people to save their river and their lives from the killer factory
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Their dream is to see their river come back to life, and fishes leap in
the sun.
A river, her people and a factory that gobbles all our precious natural
resources and pollutes our land lives, form the principal characters of
this video film.
31 Mts/1999/English/Beta-SP/DV/VHS
For enquiries:
Third Eye Communications
Sreeniketan, Lakshmi Nagar
Pattom Post, Trivandrum-695 004
Tel: 044 784 333/0471 541 355
email:sarat@satyam.net.in
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Chaliyar…
The Final Struggle
“All I wish is to see
my river come back to life just once, see the fish leap in the sun .
And see that my people don’t have to die any more like I will”
-Late Sri K A Rahman
Ex. Panchayat President, Vazhakkad
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