Brian Cox's Jute Journey [DVD]

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properties changed from orchard to settlement within a month of notifying amendment to Section 17 (2) of TCP Act. Hollywood actor Brian Cox spent nearly a week in Calcutta in the first week of April, shooting for the documentary Brian Cox’s Jute Journey as its anchor.

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The seven-member crew, among them director Brian Ross and executive producer John Archer of Scotland-based Hopscotch Films, set out with their Calcutta-based country producer Koushik Chatterjee of Bodhi Productions for a recce of the locations in which the crew would be shooting over the next four days. To uncover the history of my fellow Dundonians who travelled all the way to India to work under extreme conditions and died in an alien land is extremely emotional. Goans are dreading what the rains might bring… The focus is definitely on our capital city Panjim which has been re-baptised Smart City. Still generation followed generation into the mills, entire families occupied in creating wealth for Dundee.Metred taxis, Mopa airport, post-pandemic woes prevail… “Now that we have fitted metres, the government without consulting us decides to create an app for us and to be operated by us.

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I use Stevenson's great saying: 'I travel not to go anywhere but instead to go, the great affair is to move. The book, originally printed in 1947, remained in use until the last of the Jutewallahs left Bengal in the mid-1960s. Shooting was light with just a couple of shots taken at the Oberoi Grand, which had been their home for a week. Many of the graves are broken, it’s overgrown with weeds and the entire place reeks of extreme neglect,” said Cox.He said: "When you're born in Dundee, the thing you're very much aware of is the River Tay and the water. Just as in Dundee decades earlier, the conditions and support for Indian workers in Calcutta were dire.