Wednesday, November 23, 2011: Even as political parties in Tamil Nadu are demanding that Dam 999 be banned, the movie’s debutant director Sohan Roy claimed that there was nothing parochial about its theme or the way it has been treated.“I made this movie for a social cause and it is intended to create awareness among the public about the hazards big dams pose,” he said. “There are about 4000 dams in the world that are unsafe. For a Keralite, the reservoir shown in the movie can be Mullaperiyar dam and for a person in any other part of the world it can be a dam in a similar condition,” Roy said.
The Mullaperiyar dam bordering Kerala and Tamil Nadu is currently in the eye of a storm with Kerala demanding that the 100 year-old structure is unsafe, has to be dismantled and a new dam built at the same site. Tamil Nadu on its part has voiced reservations on this plan.
With Dam 999 scheduled to be released nationwide on Nov 25, political parties in Tamil Nadu have alleged that the movie has been funded by the Kerala government as a PR exercise. They point to the movie’s title which, they say, refers to legal rights held by Tamil Nadu over the Mullaiperiyar dam for 999 years.
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