TY - GEN
T1 - Water Consciousness and Indian Cinema
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Advances in Water Treatment and Management, ICAWTM 2023
AU - Chakraborty, Amrita
AU - Bhattacharjee, Sunayan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink,” and so wrote the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his unforgettable poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner way back in 1798 (Taylor Coleridge in The rime of the ancient mariner and other poems, 1st edn. William Collins, Glasgow, 2016) [1]. While one cannot be sure if Coleridge was a clairvoyant, the prophetic line could very well turn into a dystopian reality soon if people are not sensitized about the misuse of water. In this regard, the role of popular media in general and cinema in particular is critically important. In a country like India, cinema has the potential to bring about awareness vis-à-vis the conservation and proper utilization of water. While it cannot be said that Indian cinema has been particularly concerned about water, there have been attempts here and there to further the discourse around water and bring about a paradigm shift in people’s everyday aquatic behavior. The current paper would do a critical discourse analysis of five Hindi language movies and pinpoint the diegetic and thematic elements in the said movies that ventured into creating water consciousness among the audience. The five movies that have been selected by the researchers in the process are Lagaan (2001), Well Done Abba (2010), Jal (2013), Kaun Kitney Paani Mein (2015), and Kadvi Hawa (2017).
AB - “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink,” and so wrote the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his unforgettable poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner way back in 1798 (Taylor Coleridge in The rime of the ancient mariner and other poems, 1st edn. William Collins, Glasgow, 2016) [1]. While one cannot be sure if Coleridge was a clairvoyant, the prophetic line could very well turn into a dystopian reality soon if people are not sensitized about the misuse of water. In this regard, the role of popular media in general and cinema in particular is critically important. In a country like India, cinema has the potential to bring about awareness vis-à-vis the conservation and proper utilization of water. While it cannot be said that Indian cinema has been particularly concerned about water, there have been attempts here and there to further the discourse around water and bring about a paradigm shift in people’s everyday aquatic behavior. The current paper would do a critical discourse analysis of five Hindi language movies and pinpoint the diegetic and thematic elements in the said movies that ventured into creating water consciousness among the audience. The five movies that have been selected by the researchers in the process are Lagaan (2001), Well Done Abba (2010), Jal (2013), Kaun Kitney Paani Mein (2015), and Kadvi Hawa (2017).
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85207026558
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85207026558#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-97-5955-2_8
DO - 10.1007/978-981-97-5955-2_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85207026558
SN - 9789819759545
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 115
EP - 127
BT - Advances in Water Treatment and Management - Select Proceedings of ICAWTM 2023
A2 - Mudgal, Anurag
A2 - Davies, Philip
A2 - Kennedy, Maria
A2 - Zaragoza, Guillermo
A2 - Park, Kiho
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 11 March 2023 through 12 March 2023
ER -