Voices From Baliapal

The film captures the grass roots opposition by the people of Baliapal, a village on the east coast in Orissa, to a government plan to build a nuclear missile testing range in their area. The film begins with the waves rolling into a white sandy beach and, as the camera pans to a fishing boat at a distance in the water, a fisherman begins to sing a highly ironic song as to why God has closed His eyes and turned to stone in the temple. After the song, the basic story is established by way of interviews and there is another interlude with a song. The visuals to the song testify to how rich and beautiful the land around Baliapal is, explaining why people in this region would call it a paradise and why they would fight so hard to keep the government at bay.