63 A46 Purulia, Dhanbad and Jharia
Director: Saeed Mirza; Cinematographer: Rajendra Jangle
Duration: 01:13:22; Aspect Ratio: 1.366:1; Hue: 36.727; Saturation: 0.098; Lightness: 0.373; Volume: 0.099; Cuts per Minute: 1.649; Words per Minute: 2.235
Summary: 16th June - Purulia. At chai shop interview contd with Krishna Puri . 17th June - Dhanbad and Jharia 18th June - Maji Basti in Basta Cola, Dhanbad. Travel shot West Bengal - Raniganj
Colour Bar
Int. cont.. Other man w/ man from Puri Sadhu Krishna Puri (Cahi shop on Highway 16lh June)
Purulia, West Bengal
Why did you come from Puri?
Gambling in Purulia
Pani Ki Samasya
Party politics in WB No need for Sarkar if people get together
Young man of 39 yrs.
Nowkri employment
Travel shot - Driving through Dhanbad + trucks (Dhanbad towards Jharia 17th June)
Dhanbad
BCCL
Coking Coal
Dhanbad
Jharia Fires
Sunlight Sena
Jharkhand
Travel shot - Petrol pump. Pass trucks
Travel shot - Pass coal trucks LR pan of coalfields
Static LR pan of open cast mine. Unit in foreground
MS of unit and Salman zoom out
Static of trucks with Salman’s VO Dhabsur BCCL project, now abandoned. Used to be prestigious project. Not filled up after mining
MS of coai field with cattle
Zoom out to reveal Topography
Zoom out. Valley
LR pan o f topography
Zoom out of coalfields
Static of coals trip on road
Travel shot on bad road. Houses abandoned cars. Traffic Saeed talking about condition of road
Travel shot Bad road, Dust, following truck
Travel shot through Dhanbad roads
Travel shot through Dhanbad roads
Travel shot - Following trucks
Travel shot - Very bad road. CU of porthole and tires
Travel shot - bet truck. Coal valley on other side
Travel shot - Stop at blue gate GM Abdul Kalam’s CM of BCCL. Meeting him
Driving into project at Jharia. Unit at Pit head Handheld.Workers in cage like lift going down
Jharia
Workers. Lift coming up. New lot going down
CU of coal workers faces. LR pan
CU of mine workers face with helmet. RL pan to other faces
Caution board. Workers faces
CU of faces
Shaft, workers coming up
Static of shaft
Coal containers being pulled
Lorries moving in Sand dunes Unloading sand
Lorries unloading sand
LR pan of houses and huts
RL pan of open mines
Travel shot of sand dunes+ with Sumo with Salmans VO
Travel shot. Railway crossing with Sumo coal dust
We cut across the roads left incomplete by the state through forests controlled by Maoist insurgents and travel through Bastar, Sambhalpur, Rourkela, Kalahandi, Bolangir, Purulia.
A month later we come out on the other side of this mineral rich heart of India - where Sunlight Sena’s upper caste armies ran mining mafias.
This is Dhanbad, home of the finest coking coal, in Bihar - where the British began coal mining 150 years ago, later leaving the open cast mining to private racketeers. They were nationalised in 1971. But the underground fires that began in 1916 still burn. The land sinks. And illegal coal mining continues. Salman Ravi, a journalist who has spent years documenting the fires, the mafia and the Sunlight Sena's excesses accompanies us.
This area we're passing through now, is one with the most fire.
If we had a shower, you would get very good photography.
Did you get those coaches? - Yeah I got them... wagons -
Wagons. Wagons.
Travel shot - Sumo + terrain
Look at the kids playing on this...
- See right side, look
Are you getting the smoke?
- Sir, when both top and bottom are hot it's less visible. If the top cools even slightly, smoke will be visible.
Travel shot sand
Tell me Salman, What is this sand... over here? What is all this sand here for?
- They will drill it inside the ground.
No no, what is it for?
- For drilling purpose.
They drill the sand below, mixed with water.
Just to check the spread of fire...
There are craters in many places, small holes created by fire. And the gases coming out of it, to block that.
Sand is dumped on top of it. So that the gas does not come out, because these are poisonous, toxic gases.
Travel shot - Following with Sumo. Unit + Saeed getting off at Jharia
We should be able to see fires here, on the right
LS of cracks with smoke zoom out 1
LS of cracks with smoke zoom out pan to Sumos
Zoom out from smoke to fields with trucks passing
LS dust blowing. zoom out pan R
Saeed + Unit + Salam zoom out
Tilt down. Zoom in to coal cart on road zoom
LS smoke coming from crack
And From the Earth.
Zoom in to crack
LR pan of mine
RL pan of mine
RL pan of fire zoom into crack with fire inside smoke film
Dark fire licking out big flames zoom out
Sunset. Sun going down with colliery in foreground
Dark. Flame glowing zoom out LS Big flames
Woman
Woman walking in
NG
Woman cleaning grain pigs and dogs running out
Woman cleaning grain
Woman cleaning grain
Extreme LS breaking coal stone. Woman and kid LS
LS breaking coal stone. Woman and kid LS
Women in house making chapattis
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