Hoping the Uttarakhand disaster will make people aware that one can't take Mother Earth for granted, 'Nodi Re Tui' lead actor Moubani today said the first Bengali feature film on anti-dam movement by displaced villagers called for inclusive economic growth.
"Blocking rivers everywhere, blasting rocks with dynamites for new concrete buildings, dumping waste anywhere will backfire one day and Uttarakhand is the reminder, though none of us had imagined our film would be screened within a month of such a tragedy," Moubani, whose character is largely based on Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar, said.
"You can laugh off the doomsday threat of the Mayan calendar in December last year. But the threat of extinction is very real if we don't stop on our tracks," the part time magician daughter of P C Sorcar (junior) said.
"I am leaving it for the audience to decide if they would join the campaign to save our ecology after coming out of the auditorium. We have not tried to be preachy," director Kingshuk Dey said.
"Building dams indiscriminately on rivers for immediate gain like generating hydel power may help us in the short term, but if you stop the natural flow of rivers, don't know if more disasters are waiting to strike us," Kingshuk, who had also made a film on real identity crisis of a common man in the politically volatile Bengal, said.
Nodi Re Tui, having Soumitra Chatterjee in the role of a gram panchayat member, will be released on July 12.
