O-Drishya Kolkata

Pramod Gupta, India, 48mn 14sc

This is a documentary on the life and strugglesof 4,000 families of the Gobindopur Rail Colony, who have been living for decades along a stretch of railway tracks in south Kolkata. They are encroachers in the eyes of the law. In 2002, an environmental group filed a petition in the Kolkata High Court, claiming that these people were polluting a lake called Rabindra Sarovar.

The Court ordered their eviction, but these people have launched a legal and political struggle to resist their eviction without any alternative plan for rehabilitation.