Conditions are ripe for climapocalypse or cli-fi films
Hindustan TimesThe second season of Nikhil Advani’s Mumbai Diaries, an eight-episode series set in the same government hospital in Mumbai where the first season was set, is as nuanced as onscreen climate fiction gets. Most of his movies have a message about the planet’s well-being or lack of it—something that also inspired Indian filmmaker Nilamadhab Panda, director of The Jengaburu Curse, which dropped on Sony Liv a couple of months ago and which has been called “India’s first cli-fi thriller series”. Panda’s first OTT series comes after what he calls his “water trilogy”— Kaun Kitne Paani Mein set in the extreme droughts of Kalahandi, Odisha; Kadvi Hawa, again on extreme weather conditions and their impact on human decisions and Kalira Atita, a visually-stirring, mostly dialogue-free Odiya language film about a man’s return to his village under a deluge—all made with the helicopter belief that human beings are solely responsible for wounding the planet. The same year, Big Little Lies’ second season had a memorable sub-plot in which Laura Dern’s onscreen daughter faints after learning about climate change at school.
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