Interview | Sarvnik Kaur on making Against The Tide: ‘Climate change is not removed from our value systems’

The camera in Sarvnik Kaur's documentary Against The Tide dissects the lives, aspirations and anxieties of two fishermen from Mumbai's Koli community- Ganesh and Rakesh. I do not know what it is to be you but if you took me where you are then together perhaps we can say a story which is not perhaps your story but a story of our times.’ In that, there were a lot of disagreements between Ganesh and Rakesh, where Ganesh had never seen Rakesh as a moral benchmark, as someone whose approval he sought in life. He said, ‘Thank you for making such a pure film, I needed to come back home and apologize to Manali because I needed to realise that this one person who stands by me no matter what, I was not considerate of her feelings.’ I was also curious to see how Ganesh's family thought about it, what Manali's family thought about it. Somebody said, ‘We would like to hear from the women, what was it like when the camera was on them?’ Kaki- Rakesh's mother, who is just amazing, said: “Camera aaney se pehle bhi main gareeb thi, aur camera jaane ke baad bhi main gareeb hoon.