The camera exposes a dirty untruth
The camera exposes a dirty untruth
B
Kolappan, The Hindu, Chennai, February 27, 2017
‘Kakkoos,’
a documentary made by a woman film-maker, says manual scavenging never
disappeared
A
public toilet comes sharply into view. Around the human waste there, sanitary
napkins lie scattered, along with dead rats and other animals. A woman sanitary
worker, using two sticks as tongs, collects them. At times, she is forced to
pick them up by hand and make a heap before setting it on fire. Coughing
constantly as smoke and fire emerges from the heap, she leaves the spot.
This
scene from Kakkoos, a documentary released on Sunday, portrays the
miserable lives and working conditions of conservancy workers who are forced to
do manual scavenging in almost every part of Tamil Nadu.
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Documentary Film
Kakkoos’s Trailer
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Staple your eyes
if you must, but watch ‘Kakkoos’ Divya’s haunting film on manual scavenging
25
year old Divya Bharathi's Kakkoos is a searing documentary on the
lives of manual scavengers in Tamil Nadu.
In
the beginning, you'll find yourself wishing for a stronger stomach to handle
the visuals her unforgiving camera throws at you - toilets overflowing with
feces, humans collecting feces with their bare hands, humans plunging their
hands into drains and more - but as the film progresses, the disgust is no
longer to do with what's being shown on screen.
Instead,
the disgust turns towards yourself and the apathy that you, along with the rest
of society, have shown this issue all along for far too long.
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