Date : 13 - 14 March 2022
Time : 6 am to 6 am (24 hours window)
Film : Dollar City
Dir: Amudhan R.P.
77 min; Tamil with English subtitles; 2016; Documentary
Produced by Raj Kajendra
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Synopsis:
Tirupur, a small town in south India is well known for its thousands of export oriented garment hosiery units and millions of migrant workers from both within and outside the state of Tamilnadu.
Once a small village now a city, Tirupur provides a development model where the state machinery, exporters, small and big entrepreneurs, commission agents, trade unionists and workers converge at a point where export, and welfare of the industry are the priority by sidelining, marginalizing and eventually breaking the laws that protect environment and workers' rights.
The film provides an inside view of a successful economic system where there is connivance and consensus between the masters, mediators and the workers, where the ambitions and loyalties collapse, where the rights become a privilege, where duty becomes an opportunity and where one‟s desperation is another‟s prospect.
The fact that there has not been a workers' strike in Tirupur in the past 20 years as proudly expressed by an exporter in the film can be a classical example for the Gramscian idea of manufacture of consent.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FILM
Synopsis:
Tirupur, a small town in south India is well known for its thousands of export oriented garment hosiery units and millions of migrant workers from both within and outside the state of Tamilnadu.
Once a small village now a city, Tirupur provides a development model where the state machinery, exporters, small and big entrepreneurs, commission agents, trade unionists and workers converge at a point where export, and welfare of the industry are the priority by sidelining, marginalizing and eventually breaking the laws that protect environment and workers' rights.
The film provides an inside view of a successful economic system where there is connivance and consensus between the masters, mediators and the workers, where the ambitions and loyalties collapse, where the rights become a privilege, where duty becomes an opportunity and where one‟s desperation is another‟s prospect.
The fact that there has not been a workers' strike in Tirupur in the past 20 years as proudly expressed by an exporter in the film can be a classical example for the Gramscian idea of manufacture of consent.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FILM
Mr. Amudhan did excellent ground work to show the conditions of Tirupur textile workers(working for low wages and MNCs were beneficiaries, at the same time he shown how traditional families still accustomed to traditional manual weaving as they cannot afford power looms and adopt changing technology. At the same time good thing he bought to the notice of the viewers is Madras high-court order of closing some dyeing units because of polluted effluents disposed in a river and natually environmental disasters. Same environmental pollution done by Birla Co (Harihar polyfibres), in Karnataka polluting Tungabadhara river, from last 6 decades, but no one questioning, as they are politically influenced and in education sector also Birla is dominant. But even today due to water pollution local people suffering from Jaundice and other water born diseases. Overall Director gave good exposure throgh his script, well done....bhayi..Shiva/Bengaluru
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