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Film depicts plight of Punjabi immigrants
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15 Mar 2007
New Delhi, India
Tripti Nath
A large number of young immigrants from Punjab who mortgage their family land and gold to settle abroad realise that the pastures in faraway lands are not half as green as they had imagined.
"Shores Far Away," a 48-minute film shot over a period of 18 months by Noida based film-maker Savyasaachi Jain, holds a mirror to harsh day-to-day realities of illegal immigrants from Punjab.
The film, screened by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at the UN conference hall here on Tuesday evening, documents the subhuman conditions in which youths from Punjab are living in Austria, Moscow and the UK.
The film also narrates the plight of skilled and unskilled workers from India who gather at Kalha chowk, a labour chowk in Southall at 6 am everyday in the hope of getting some daily wage work.
