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Ahead of its release, directors reflect on Netflix series, Kaala Paani
Updated On: 15 October, 2023 07:34 AM IST | Mumbai | Arpika Bhosale
Actor-director Ashutosh Gowarikar makes his OTT debut with a show that pits an island against humans, and survives to tell the tale
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The team behind Kaala Paani, a survival thriller set in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. (From left) Ashutosh Gowariker, Sukhant Goel, Amey Wagh, Sameer Saxena and Amit Golani. Pics/Shadab Khan
A big rock has a rope criss-crossing its surface as it hovers, suspended over a pipeline in mid-air. Boom! boom! boom! goes the sound of the rock as the indigenous residents—fictitiously named the Oraka tribe—of the Andaman and Nicobar Island, who are holding on to the unbound and free end of the rope let it go, then pull it up, and repeat this exercise until the final boom! smashes the pipeline. The water gushes out onto the greenest grass you may have ever seen.
It’s an impactful scene, and it opens the first episode of the Netflix series, Kaala Paani, which drops on October 18. The multi-starrer is touted to be India’s first survival series, that also touches upon how indigenous people continue to be misunderstood even as their homes are endangered. The series is set in December 2027 and is about an evil entity, that in the form of a disease, is slowly killing the residents. The island is also cut off from the rest of the world and the residents are trying to find their way out before disaster befalls them. It stars Ashutosh Gowariker, Amey Wagh, Sukant Goel and Mona Singh, and has been directed by Sameer Saxena and Amit Golani.
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