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DAM 999 - Will It Burst And Take The Unity Of India With It?
DAM 999, a movie released today
about a 110 year old dam,
built to last for a meagre 50 years using mud and mortar, which bursts during
an earthquake, is itself in the middle of a political storm and has caught the
world’s attention. The flick is about the Mullapperiyar Dam in Kerala,
an idyllic state in the union of India
and the last place on earth where people still believe in communism.
At the heart of the political
storm is a water sharing agreement for 999 years, irrelevant in any civilised
part of the world, which put the life of three million people. at great
risk, as it doesn’t take in to account the aging of the dam built to
harness the Periyar River .
Entered in to before the Indian independence by the British who occupied the
neighbouring state of Tamilnad and the princely state of Kerala, the ridiculous
agreement does not provide for the construction of a new dam to replace the old
one. The problem really is while Tamilnad receives the collected water for
irrigation and power the river actually flows to the opposite side to the
thickly populated Kerala and will engulf and sweep three million people if and
when the dam burst in a catastrophic earth quake as depicted in the movie.
The UAE-Indian film
has become controversial as the state of Tamilnad has prohibited its release
and exhibition in its cinemas, accusing the producers of scare mongering among
the vast population and the state of Kerala for secretly funding the movie. The
producers on the other hand are approaching the supreme court of India
for the obstruction of civil liberty rights and losses.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
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