The Award-winning 75 minute documentary in - English - Hindi - Italian - French - English for hearing impaired     Plus more than four hours of extras, including What Happened Next (mini doc) 15 minute update from Luhariya and the other Jalsindhi villagers. Filmed in August 2003. "Our house has gone, our crops have gone. The insects, our Gods, the worms... everything that lived on that land has gone."   Luhariya's commentary Drowned Out's star reveals his feelings about the film, the filming, the filmmakers and the power of the media to influence lives. Plus his reaction to seeing his cattle on the big screen. "Now I know how hard it is to make a film. Hard for you to do the filming and hard for us to speak about everything... but then without hard work, nothing is gained.."   Director's Commentary The inside story of the three year, no budget, no electricity, no Hindi production. With Franny Armstrong (Director), Nina Wadia (Narrator), Chris Brierley (Composer), Neil Hipkiss (Sound Engineer) and Frank Hutson (Songwriter). "So there I was at the end of the first day's filming. In jail."   Cinema Jalsindhi (mini doc) The Spanner Films' crew took a generator, projector, speakers, amp, 100 metres of speaker cable and a bed sheet back to Jalsindhi to screen Drowned Out for the villagers. It was the first time any of them had seen a moving image. "I've left the plug in the jeep and I'd need to get a boat that only comes once a day and then walk for nine miles."   Extended Interviews with - Arundhati Roy "I was slowly turning into a little silver statue with a little silver heart." - Medha Patkar "The downtrodden population was always in the hearts of everyone in my family. I could not do anything else." - Hugh Brody "They were talking about whether or not to kidnap me." - Patrick McCully "It's like saying that blood flowing to our feet is wasted, so let's cut ourselves off at the knees." - Jay Narayan Vyas "We have gone from an era of eco-romanticism to one of eco-Nazism."   Small Solutions (mini doc) Some alternatives to big dams, edited by Drowned Out's Assistant Producer Ntennis Davi from footage we shot for the original film, but couldn't squeeze in. "These fancy ideas of bigness don’t hold any meaning for people in the drought villages."     Interview with Franny Armstrong (20 mins) Watch the Director squirm as the camera is turned round the other way. Production, distribution and communication. Motivations, inspirations and limitations. Fundraising, surviving and blagging. "The red carpets, the premieres, I never really wanted them. But now they're here..."     Passing Us By (mini doc) Update from the Bargi-dam displaced people, who were living in the big city slums and working as rickshaw drivers. "People like you come and take photos and then leave. What good does that do us?"   Happy Ending (mini doc) An appeal for funds from some dam displaced villagers who have come up with an ingenious plan to solve their problems. "It's like a miracle growth."   Photo Galleries Freelance photographer Karen Robinson's heart-stopping images from the Narmada valley - as well as our our own production snaps.   Interactive Quiz Here's a water park in Gujarat. Where do you think it is? a) Right by the sea, so only salt water is used and no fresh water is wasted b) In an area far from the drought zone c) In the drought area, where people are dying of thirst   Plus Crew CVs, Six Degrees of Incestuous Filmmakers, Deleted Scene, McLibel trailer, Quotes & Reviews, Filmography, Making Of article and so it goes on   Formats etc The Drowned Out DVD is available in: PAL (Europe/ UK/ India/ Australia) NTSC (US, Japan) Obviously we haven't put any dodgy region coding on it, so it will play anywhere in the world, provide you buy the correct format (PAL or NTSC) for your TV It's a dual-layered, single disc DVD which will play on any standalone or computer DVD player.   All of this can be yours for Individuals - £20 Colleges/ Institutions - £100 Individuals in India - £5 Plus any donation you'd care to make towards paying off the equipment we had to buy to make the DVD. Oops.