Adivasi residents of Habalepada and Nagarmudi Pada obstructed the survey task for the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road and sat on a protest against the construction of twin tunnels that will run under the Sanjay Gandhi National Park hills and exit at Khindipada in Mulund. In 2017 Habalepada residents were served notices by Slum Rehabilitation Authority, Mumbai, to survey our houses whereas, …
This is where Kamal KM’s second directorial cements its place as a refreshing change. Pada comes out at the right time as an antidote to Malayalam cinema and the audience’s obsession with fictionalising real-life incidents in a voyeuristic and gratuitous manner, while excluding the oppressed. Unlike the very “good state-bad individual” clichéd narrative, Pada shows a violent brahminical state serving …
March 12, 2022 04:41 pm | Updated March 14, 2022 01:12 pm IST A majority of responses to injustice often serve the function of pressure releasing valves, as one-off protests calming the pent-up anger, while staying within the accepted confines of civil society. Pada is a cinematic chronicle of one such real-life incident, which is now almost forgotten in Kerala, …
