K for Kuppai
At the foot of the Western Ghats, biomedical waste was dumped beside a reservoir that farmland depends on. This film was made to put it on record.
Details
- Format
- Documentary
- Length
- 18 min
- Now showing
- Highlights · 01:12
- Filmed in
- Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu
- Language
- Tamil, with English captions on the highlights
About the film
Kuppai is the Tamil word for garbage. In March 2025, at Mampazhathurayaru, Villukuri, in Kanyakumari district, biomedical waste was found dumped beside a reservoir that the surrounding farmland relies on for irrigation.
K for Kuppai was made, in the words of its own narration, so that the matter would not simply pass: to document what was found, to hear from the people who raised it, and to ask what happened next.
It ends on a single line: Kanyakumari is not anyone’s dumping yard.
Highlights
3 moments
“A danger to people’s lives and health, to the soil, the water, the air: to the entire ecosystem.”
“This cannot be allowed to simply pass. It has to be documented properly.”
“Kanyakumari is not anyone’s dumping yard.”
Stills
6 frames
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