Chaliyar...The Final Struggle
A film by P. Baburaj and C. Saratchandran 1998-2001/English/35 mins
1958, The Government of Kerala persuades the Birlas to open a factory in Mavoor, Kozhikkode, North Kerala. The Grasim rayon pulp factory was open for around four decades. Thousands of workers earned their living trading future lives for present. The fumes wing their way to the neighborhood spreading disease and death. Effluents gurgle into Chaliyar River poisoning everything on its way to th sea. At a time when environmental activism was unheard of, a man lead his people to save their River and their lives from the killer factory. Their dream was 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 prinicipal characters in this film.
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