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Against the Tide

Documentary Marathi


Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.

Director:Sarvnik Kaur
Editor:Atanas Georgiev, Blagoja Nedelkovski
Camera:Ashok Meena

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A Tale of Two Indigenous Fishermen in Mumbai

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Poulomi Das | The Federal writing for HyperAllergic

Sat, November 16 2024

Against the Tide examines Mumbai’s Koli community’s drift between tradition and progress.

The story of Mumbai, India’s largest city, is linked inextricably with the story of the Kolis, the lower-caste, Indigenous fisherfolk community whose koliwadas (villages) dot the coastline. Until the 1800s, what we know as Mumbai today used to be an archipelago of seven islands, harmoniously inhabited by Koli communities. These islands turned into a city due to human intervention — a product of several land reclamation projects that also enabled the displacement of Mumbai’s original inhabitants.

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