You cannot walk away from kakkoos!


S**t!’ is hardly what a debutant filmmaker would want to be told about her film. But that’s all that Divya Bharathi, director of the hard-hitting documentary, Kakkoos, wants her audience to take away from the film.

The visuals of Kakkoos, meaning toilet, are stabbing – septic tanks, overflowing toilets, clogged sewers, men and women clearing human faeces with their bare hands, standing in drains to relieve the drains of their baggage, sweeping away vomit, and using two sticks to remove bloodied sanitary napkins, among others. ‘If talking about human faeces makes you uncomfortable, then the fact that it’s still being cleaned by another human being should make you squirm’, is the point Kakkoos drives home. “They are referred to as sanitation workers or conservancy workers.............Read more

 

Source: The New Indian Express


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