Yamuna

Hindi/27mins 30secs/2002
Producer: Nandan Saxena, Top Quark Productions
Commissioned by: MCD

Subject Focus: The present state of the Yamuna and the Yamuna Action Plan.

Summary: Yamuna, revered once as a mother goddess, has now been reduced to a sewer. The culture that knew how to co-exist with Nature has been swamped by a consumerist culture where Nature is subservient to Man. The film focuses on the present state of the Yamuna and the clean up initiated by the Yamuna Action Plan. The film is an attempt to profile the river, especially the most polluted stretch at Delhi. The causes of the pollution figure in the course of the narrative, as do the solutions. It is also an attempt at showing us the mirror for we all add to the pollution load by acts of omission and commission.

Producer’s/Director’s Profile: Nandan Saxena has done Diploma in Journalism from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi. He is into Direction, Camera, Editing and Scripting. He is currently working on a cultural travelogue on the journey to the 1,006-year-old monastery in the village of Tabo in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.