THE BURNING SUN – by SNS Sastry – 21 mins

 

THE BURNING SUN

English and Hindi, 21 min, B/W, 1973 

Directed by SNS Sastry

Produced by Films Division 

The Burning Sun is a scathing critique of the slum clearance and rehabilitation projects in Mumbai in the early 1970s. The film pits the top-down approach of state housing and sanitation programmes in the city against the voice of the angry resident. The candid interviews of slum-dwellers reveal their reactions to the slogan of “garibi hatao” (eradicate poverty) and the pretentions of politicians.

To be screened with A Disappearance Foretold.