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Kandivli: A River Saga

Following the dictum "History at Doorstep" by the world-renowned scholar-historian D.D. Kosambi and started my research about the filthy nullah in my neighborhood, which was once upon a time a river with pristine and clean waters. I started interviewing local denizens in the Kandivli village and an octogenarian Joe D'Souza recalled to have seen shooting of a film on this river - the Poisar River. After days of poking his memory, he further recalled the approximate time of its making - 1947, which was India's year of independence. And still further follow up with him gave me two monosyllables of a song which might have been part of this still unnamed film - they were 'Chhaiya, Chhaiya'. My research became intenser and after a few months i could locate the song through a song-booklet, the song was, 'Chhuk chhuk chhaiya chhaiya', one confirmation led me to searching the film, and that zeroed down to the film 'Shehnai' directed by PL Santoshi, produced by Filmistan. But how to see the film, a visit to the national film archive bore no fruits, but my journey persisted - it is an interesting story how i got a cd of this film, though of very bad quality, but to my great surprise and to Joe's memory, i saw the song whose background matched with the still present river, which has unfortunately has turned into a poisonous state... i made this 7-minute film and titled it "Kandivli: A River Saga". Showed it to many local residents in Kandivli - many exclaimed with a sense of pain, 'What have we done to this beautiful river, after we became independent?' - Amrit Gangar