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director's movie "Waterborn" as Psychological
Thriller
Los Angles, July 24, 2006
Ramesh Verma
NRI press
When suspected al-Qaeda men poison the
reservoir providing water to the city, turmoil grips
the panic-stricken streets in director Ben Rekhi's dark
speculative drama. There's a mad rush to procure bottles
of safe drinking water and unquenched thirst soon leads
to mass hysteria. With resources quickly shrinking and
the stress of the terrified population reaching a breaking
point, the face of humanity turns foul as civility takes
a back seat to survival instinct and the only thing
that counts is getting out alive.
"Waterborne is a fictionalisation
of what it is too easy to take for granted - that water
would be there for you always," says 27-year-old
Rekhi. "But it is probable these kind of bioterrorists
can strike in the next 50 years."
The idea for the film came about some years ago when
Rekhi was standing on the edge of a water reservoir
and looked back at the town behind him.
"It was then that the idea came to be. Not so
much about the terror plot but its effect," he
says.
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“It has the tone of a disaster film and the heart
of a character drama. I want to grab you from the beginning,
shake you up and never let you go until the end,”
says writer-director Ben Rekhi about his feature debut,
Waterborne, a thriller about three L.A. subcultures colliding
after a terrorist attack on the city’s water supply.
The film follows a college student and his slacker cousin,
a Sikh convenience store owner struggling to balance a
traditional Punjabi mom and an American girlfriend, and
a gung-ho National Guardsman in three separate storylines
over 72 hours. “It’s a film that explores how
our society responds to terrorist attacks and the ensuing
state of tension and anxiety,” says Rekhi. “[It
deals with] issues like racial discrimination, the role
of the military and how the bonds of a relationship can
be questioned when you’re thrown into a state of
emergency.”
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