New York City-based telecom executive-turned-filmmaker Saurav Vishnu’s award-winning short, ‘Tailing Pond’, which highlights the horrific effects of uranium extraction on the children of Jharkhand’s Jadugora, is being expanded into a six-part documentary series. Is. The involvement of ‘Sex and the City’ actor Cynthia Nixon.
Nixon, who played Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City and the two films based on it, is the narrator of the short documentary, which records how children are falling ill and dying from radioactive waste pollution. , report ‘Variety’. The film was shot in Jadugora in five years.
Nixon is best known for her roles in both popular and critically acclaimed films such as “Baby’s Day Out”, “Amadeus”, “James White” and “A Quiet Passion”, where she played the poet Emily Dickinson, as well as Broadway shows and television serials, where she has appeared as Eleanor Roosevelt and Nancy Reagan. She is also a well-known LGBT rights activist.
The proposed six-part documentary series, of which Nixon will have a very important part, will follow 12 families in Jadugora who suffer due to radioactive poisoning.
Tailing ponds are water bodies that store unusable extracts from ‘tailing’ or mining operations that are usually highly toxic or radioactive. Jadugora has nine such ponds that are filled with ‘tails’ from a nearby uranium mining facility, around which hundreds of families live. Vishnu, who hails from Jharkhand, has made it his mission to bring the plight of the villagers to the attention of India and the world, adds ‘Variety’ to his report.
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