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Damn the Dam-999

Director : Roy Sohan Starring : Joshua Fredrick Smith ,                 Linda Arsenio ,                 Vimla Raman ,                 Rajat Kapoor ,                 Thampy Antony & others Dam-999 was called as a concept movie,  showing a dam burst, in fact, an earthquake causing a dam disaster and flooding. The setting was supposed to be  Mulla-periyar , a 100 year old dam that was awaiting its death in southern Kerala. This movie directed by  Roy Sohan , a native of the same place where the dam exists had won accolades for his documentary ‘ Dams – The lethal water bombs ’. Perhaps, that was what inspired him to go further to direct a full-length feature film, taking up the cause of his people.  But when you have to enter into a realm of commercial movies, one needs to have a lot of other ingredients in it, unlike the documentary.  And that's how Dam-999 was apparently born, with the pre-release videos claiming an overflow of a gamut of human emotions.  Mulla-periyar