Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal
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| Directed by | Dr. Biju |
| Produced by | Dr. A.K. Pillai |
| Written by | Dr. Biju |
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Kunchacko Boban Nedumudi Venu Suraj Venjaramoodu Salim Kumar Prakash Bare James Bradford Thampi Antony Krishnan Balakrishnan Sajeev Pillai Krishnaprasad Jayakrishnan Dr. Muhammed Asheel Anumol Patricia Leduc Pretti Johnson Master Govardhan |
| Cinematography | M. J. Radhakrishnan |
| Edited by | Karthik Jogesh , Finn George Modathara |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam /English /French |
| Budget | ₹4 crore (US $600,000) |
Valiya Chirakula Pakshikal (English: Birds with Large Wings) is a 2015 Indian Malayalam film written and directed by Dr. Biju and produced by Dr. A.K. Pillai. It is based on an incident in a small village in Kasaragod in the state of Kerala were thousands of people were infected with fatal diseases due to the effects of endosulfan, a pesticide used to protect cashewnut trees.
The film was shot in Kerala and Canada, and was released in India in December 2015.
The film is a partly fictional representation of the environmental disaster caused by the use of the pesticide endosulfan in the Kasaragod District of Kerala, India. This disaster was caused by nearly two and a half decades of endosulfan use on government-owned cashew plantations. The film explores the disastrous environmental and public health consequences of the use of the pesticide and the health-related effects that persist to this day.
The film depicts the after-effects of pesticide spraying through the eyes of a photographer. His first visit to the area was during a rainy season in 2001, and his photographs revealed the shocking state of the numerous victims to the world. Endosulfan-induced misery gained worldwide attention as a result of these photographs. When the photographer visited the area again in the summer of 2006, many of the young victims he had photographed during his earlier visit, had died. Even now, children are being affected with strange and debilitating diseases. In 2011, the Stockholm Summit of UN on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) recommended a total ban on endosulfan. India was the only country that opposed this decision. A year later, in 2012, the photographer returned to Kasaragod and found that the plight of these victims persisted, and that the survivors continued to suffer.
The main character is based Madhuraj a Mathrubhumi press photojournalist whose 2001 exposé shed light on the environmental damage that resulted from the use of endosulfan. tragedy. To maintain authenticity, and to depict events accurately, Dr. Biju consulted Madhuraj and other activists associated with the Kasaragod issue. It took nearly a year for the director to conduct this research. In a bid to give a voice to those affected by this man-made, environmental crisis, the characters that appear in the film are played by real-life victims.
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