KOLKATA: 'Do you wish to have to commit suicide?' The tough query is thrown on the Kolkatans in a thought-provoking documentary that sends out a robust message on how the town might be onerous hit in about part a century as a result of rising water ranges because of local weather alternate.
The 33 minute bi-lingual documentary 'Kolkata 2070' - screened on the Bharat Chambers on Tuesday - revolves across the theme "The City is Sinking" and talks in regards to the irresponsible behaviour of the folk in a Ametropolis that ranks prime among 40 Asian cities in relation to carbon emission.
Besides, land filling of water bodies, building of prime rise buildings, and random disposal of plastic waste in rivers are clogging the sewage gadget and creating a critical imbalance within the setting. The sea degree rise has already submerged regions of Sunderbans - the world's biggest mangrove woodland - which has led to huge migration and lack of livelihood for the locals.
Directed via Suman Mukhopadhyay, and co-produced via the Centre for Contemporary Communication (CCC) in affiliation with the German Consulate General in Kolkata, the documentary is a serious warning call for authorities to make collaborative efforts against embracing clean energy and adopting novel generation that would leave lesser carbon footprint.
"When I came to the city eighteen months ago, I felt it's a great city but it has some issues. Huge buildings are being built where formerly was a stream or a park and the waterways are slightly polluted," German Deputy Consul General in Kolkata Jurgen Thomas Schrod instructed IANS.
"We are in the middle of the water crisis as the Ganges, and the Hooghly have a high grade of salination and all the water-treatment plants find it immensely difficult to cope with it," he mentioned.
"I think it is about time to address these issues and problems and make people aware. We have already started with schools and tried to interact with students and step by step we are trying to interact with the politicians and the decision-makers."
Centre of Contemporary Communication Aexecutive director Mallika Jalan nearly echoed Schrod.
"I have been working on the issues of climate change in Kolkata since 2010 and my main concern has been that people the city are not engaging in these issues," lamented Jalan.
"Every individual living in the city has to think how much he or she can give and my motivation to make the film was to talk to the people about the environment and climate change," she added.
The script and the storyline are in response to established medical proof and paperwork including World Bank stories on local weather alternate for Kolkata.
The choice 2070 as the year during which the imaginary scene of inundation is shown to happen is in response to predictions in these paperwork.
Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee has anchored the documentary, with some narrations via singer-composer Kabir Suman.
The 33 minute bi-lingual documentary 'Kolkata 2070' - screened on the Bharat Chambers on Tuesday - revolves across the theme "The City is Sinking" and talks in regards to the irresponsible behaviour of the folk in a Ametropolis that ranks prime among 40 Asian cities in relation to carbon emission.
Besides, land filling of water bodies, building of prime rise buildings, and random disposal of plastic waste in rivers are clogging the sewage gadget and creating a critical imbalance within the setting. The sea degree rise has already submerged regions of Sunderbans - the world's biggest mangrove woodland - which has led to huge migration and lack of livelihood for the locals.
Directed via Suman Mukhopadhyay, and co-produced via the Centre for Contemporary Communication (CCC) in affiliation with the German Consulate General in Kolkata, the documentary is a serious warning call for authorities to make collaborative efforts against embracing clean energy and adopting novel generation that would leave lesser carbon footprint.
"When I came to the city eighteen months ago, I felt it's a great city but it has some issues. Huge buildings are being built where formerly was a stream or a park and the waterways are slightly polluted," German Deputy Consul General in Kolkata Jurgen Thomas Schrod instructed IANS.
"We are in the middle of the water crisis as the Ganges, and the Hooghly have a high grade of salination and all the water-treatment plants find it immensely difficult to cope with it," he mentioned.
"I think it is about time to address these issues and problems and make people aware. We have already started with schools and tried to interact with students and step by step we are trying to interact with the politicians and the decision-makers."
Centre of Contemporary Communication Aexecutive director Mallika Jalan nearly echoed Schrod.
"I have been working on the issues of climate change in Kolkata since 2010 and my main concern has been that people the city are not engaging in these issues," lamented Jalan.
"Every individual living in the city has to think how much he or she can give and my motivation to make the film was to talk to the people about the environment and climate change," she added.
The script and the storyline are in response to established medical proof and paperwork including World Bank stories on local weather alternate for Kolkata.
The choice 2070 as the year during which the imaginary scene of inundation is shown to happen is in response to predictions in these paperwork.
Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee has anchored the documentary, with some narrations via singer-composer Kabir Suman.
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