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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 Sasis 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 Indias 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..."
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more...
- The
Source of Life for Sale:
Writes Max Martin in Infochange: "Its
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 balladeers
song breathes life into the story of the Ganga . Cut to
shots of the choked river, and you get a shock..."
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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...
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