The Life Saver
Mumbai, the economic capital of our country, a city of dream’s, where everyone is busy in running after the ambitions where now some people say that no humanity exists anymore in such metropolitan cities. Well not so true! It’s true that everybody has their demons. Pick any single person in India and ask him his woes. He’ll narrate a whole list of them, one more distressing than the others. Most people find ways to deal with the issues affecting their souls. In other cases, however, the human mind overpowers all logical thought and is able to convince a person that their life is not worth living anymore. Of the 1300,000 people who commit suicide every year in the world, 235,000 are residents of India. The state of Maharashtra accounted for 17.9% of the suicides in India in the year of 2018, ranking second only behind the state of Tamil Nadu. Maharashtra's capital city Mumbai sports the Sion-Panvel highway and on this very highway lies the Vashi Creek Bridge, a bridge which has acquired the reputation of being a prime suicide spot owing to the increasing number of people who take their lives by jumping off the bridge.
Two particular fishermen are out to change these statistics and stop people from taking their precious lives. Meet Rajaram Joshi & Dattatray Bhoir, a fifth-generation fisherman who fishes at Vashi creek and serves as hero. Rajaram has helped rescue more than 37 people & Dattatray has helped rescue more than 21 people who have jumped from the bridge. Rajaram saved 7-year-old child from drowning when he was as young as 12 and is on a mission to save as many more as he can and give them a new chance at life.
Joshi uses his friend Anand Bhaghat’s boat & Bhoir have there own boat to rescue people off the bridge. "After we receive a call from the control room, we reach Vashi creek usually within seven minutes. we rush to the creek on our bike, so we have often reached before fire brigade," Rajaram & Dattatray says. The fire brigade calls Rajaram & Dattatray immediately when they get information of a person trying to end their life on the bridge and Rajaram & Dattatray spends his own money and petrol and speed to the bridge from the neighboring village of Vashi.
Not ending his responsibility at just rescuing the people, Rajaram also extends his support by visiting them often at the hospital. He does all of his not for money or recognition but out of the goodness of his heart.
How this force of fishermen’s acts as parallel force with Police department? Their attachment with the Mumbai & their work? Supportive government system, cooperative official’s and force of fishermen working in hand in hand from years to save lives. Through the interview’s of fishermen’s, police officials & victims we are trying to identify the vital role played by police department & local fishermen’s in rescuing hundred’s of life’s.
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Santosh Ganpat KambleDirector
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Santosh Ganpat KambleProducer
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Prashant DighaProducer
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Dayasagar WankhedeProducer
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Vipul GautamCinematographer
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Rohit GhoksheEditor
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Prashant - NishantOriginal background score
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Amit PadvankarAssociate director
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Vishal KambleAssociate director
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Sakar PawarCamera assistant
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Vivek SakpalSubtitle
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:6 minutes 12 seconds
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Completion Date:August 20, 2019
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Production Budget:1,200 USD
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Country of Origin:India
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Country of Filming:India
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Language:Marathi
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Shooting Format:Digital 35 mm, Sony A7sR
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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First time participate in your festival
I'm Santosh Ganpat kamble, Born in mumbai. I was started my artistic journey from 2007 by doing theater to understand the storytelling world. After that I'll join the prestigious theater group "Avishkar Mumbai" from 2009 to 2012, to gain domain knowledge of acting, writing and direction. Since 2012 I started working for television show as associate director and symlteniusly start make independent short film every year to prove my direction skill. Finally in 2015 i got opportunity to direct independently for TV show "Aapale Sanvidhan Aapala Atmasamman" with ABP MAZA, IBN LOKMAT & MI MARATHI. In 2016 Maharashtrachi Shaan with Doordarshan, in 2018 AB EK GOONJ for web ( project list mentioned in the attached resume PDF). I was working with Anusaya Art's Pvt Ltd as Vice president and Creative head from 2014 to 2018.. Now days I'm working as program producer with Swarajya Media Group for Lokshahi News.
Mumbai, the economic capital of our country, a city of dreams, where everyone is busy in running after their ambitions. Nowadays, many say that no humanity exist anymore in such metropolitan cities. Well not so true! It’s true that everybody has their dreams. Pick any single person in India and ask him/her their woes. They’ll narrate a whole list of them, each one distressing than another. Most people find ways to deal with the issues affecting their souls. In some cases, however, the human mind overpowers all logical thought and is able to convince a person that their life is not worth living anymore. Out of those 13,00,000 people who commit suicide every year in the world, 2,35,000 are Indian residents. The state of Maharashtra accounted for 17.9% of the suicides in India in the year of 2018, ranking second; while the state of Tamil Nadu being the first. Maharashtra's capital city Mumbai sports the Sion-Panvel highway and on this very highway lies the Vashi Creek Bridge. A bridge which has acquired the disreputation of being a prime suicide spot owing to the increasing number of people who take their lives by jumping off the bridge.
Two particular fishermen are out to change these statistics and stop people from taking their precious lives. Meet Rajaram Joshi & Dattatray Bhoir, a fifth-generation fishermen who fishes at Vashi creek and serves as hero. Rajaram has helped rescue more than 37 people & Dattatray has helped rescue more than 21 people who have jumped from the bridge. Rajaram saved 7-year-old child from drowning when he himself was as young as 12 and is on a mission to save as many more as he can and give them a new life.
Joshi uses his friend Anand Bhaghat’s boat & Bhoir have their own boat to rescue people off the bridge. "After we receive a call from the control room, we reach Vashi creek usually within seven minutes. We rush to the creek on our bike, so we have often reached before fire brigade," Rajaram and Dattatray says, that the fire brigade calls Rajaram & Dattatray immediately when they get information of a person trying to end their life on the bridge and Rajaram & Dattatray spends their own money and petrol and speed to the bridge from the neighboring village of Vashi.
Not ending his responsibility at just rescuing the people, Rajaram also extends his support by visiting them often at the hospital. He does all of this not for the money or recognition but out of the goodness of his heart.
How this force of fishermen acts as parallel force with Police department? Their attachment with the Mumbai & their work? Supportive government system, cooperative officials and force of fishermen working hand in hand from years to save lives. Through the interviews of fishermen, police officials & victims we are trying to identify the vital role played by police department & local fishermen in rescuing hundreds of lives.