Under Construction - UC Films

English (subtitled), 38 min, 2008, India

Delhi, one of the greenest capitals in the world is changing. The city’s 2500 year old history and greens are being transformed for a globalised look, in the run up to the Commonwealth Games, 2010. What is the price of destroying the green lung of our city? What is the vision? Who is planning the change? Is this change inclusive?

Shot over 2007-2008, the film captures the key milestones of this transformation. The city’s leading academics, urban planners, environmentalists and activists, debate the nature of this change. The Yamuna, the city trees, and the city’s poor – all fall under this axis of change.

Commercialisation of  land, seems to be the mantra fueling this new vision. Delhi is being transformed forever even as we debate, resist and make films on this ‘new’ Delhi.