Last updated: November 25, 2007

Media Reports

Read some of the reviews we've had...

  • Resisting Coastal Invasion:
    A Deccan Herald review reports: "Who owns the sea? Should fisher folk starve to spur a tourism boom? What does the future hold for the fishing community, when in-sea sand mining is legitimised? Questions were fired as salvos against policy-makers on Monday, on the sidelines of the screening of K P Sasi’s documentary Resisting Coastal Invasion." Read more...

  • Resisting Coastal Invasion
    A review of this film in The Hindu begins thus: "The coast — where the ocean meets the land, where life began, where a fourth of India’s population lives and where the forces of globalisation are now ominously poised to change everything, from the livelihood of fishing communities to the rich coastal ecosystem..." Read more...

  • Time After Tsunami
    Rakesh Mehar writes in The Hindu: "The documentary is stark and minimalistic, and has a raw, unpolished quality that works well in its favour. Juxtaposing expert comments with on-ground pictures, Sasi lets the facts speak for themselves..." Read more...
  • The Source of Life for Sale:
    Writes Max Martin in Infochange: "It’s all about shared anger, anguish, hope. Not all fire and brimstone and sermons, but a film with a flow, a narrative, stunning visuals of rivers, rivulets, rain, waterfalls, ghats and more. There is even a sepia clip of an old film song sequence in which the actor Satyan rows along the Periyar in Kerala, calling it a shy girl. Similarly, a balladeer’s song breathes life into the story of the Ganga . Cut to shots of the choked river, and you get a shock..." Read more...
  • America, America!
    "Boo to the Big Bully!" writes Anand Sankar in The Hindu..."Award-winning documentary filmmaker K.P. Sasi's satirical music video on America was screened in Bangalore recently as a precursor to George Bush's visit to India". Read more...