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Drowned Out

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Producer(s)	Franny Armstrong
Director(s)	Franny Armstrong
Release Date	2002
Work In Progress	No
Runtime	75 min
Format(s)	DVD
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	No

Film Description

Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, relocate to a barren resettlement site with no drinking water or stay at home and drown.

The people of Jalsindhi in central India must make a decision dast. In the next few weeks, their village will disappear underwater as the giant Namrada Dam fills.

Bestselling author Arundhati Roy joins the fight against the dam and asks the difficult questions. Will the water go to poor farmers or to rich industrialists? What happened to the 16 millions people displaced by fifty years of dam building? Why should I care?

Drowned Out follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, rallies, police brutality and a six year Supreme Court case. It stays with them as the dam fills and the river starts to rise…

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Last Updated On:	July 13, 2010