Page 03 · A series in production

Footage no one else has

From 2015 to 2019 we filmed Pune's hills, river edges, flyovers and new suburbs, and the people fighting over them. Many of those places are gone.

In 2027 we return to the same frames.

The same Pune riverside seen from above in 2004 and in 2020, fields replaced by dense buildings

A Pune riverside, 2004 and 2020 · Imagery: Google Earth

Production stills

On the ground since 2015

Homes, gardens, riverbanks, offices, hilltops.

Interview being filmed on a footpath bench beside a city road

Cinematographer behind a cinema camera, black and white

Camera operator framing a shot across a lake

Crew and interviewee on a curved bench in a neighbourhood garden

Seated interview in a garden, crew with camera

Sound recordist monitoring a field recorder

Interview filmed in a home with camera and lights

Crew checking a drone controller on an open hilltop

Crew setting up for an interview indoors

Sound recordist with headphones during a seated interview

Crew member holding a reflector in a shaded doorway

For producers · Already in the can

100 to 150+ hours of footage shot since 2015

filmed interviews, 2015 to 2018

locations recced

670

news reports in 50 research themes

court and tribunal orders on forests, hills, rivers, coasts

Format	What it covers	Where
4K	Streets, rivers, hills and aerials	Pune's hills, river edges, flyovers and new suburbs
1080p	Sit down interviews with 22 architects, planners, lawyers, activists, researchers and artists	Homes, gardens, riverbanks, offices
GoPro	Street level and on the move	Pune streets
Archive	Satellite time series from Google Earth: the same frame, years apart	Pune, Mumbai, Hinjewadi, Powai, the national park edge

Edits ready to view

First trailer, 2016
First interview cut, 2017
Rough cut, 2018
Graded stills, 2019
Episode 1 cut with voice over

Writing ready

Ten episode schematic
Revised Episode 1 script
Pilot proposal: No Place to Play, 26 min
Questions and voice over drafts, 2015 to 2025

Research ready

River edge analysis, Pune
Development Plan analysis and court files
Satellite series for Pune and Mumbai
Social media series on the themes, 2023

From 2015 to 2019 we filmed places that are now gone. In 2027 we return to the same frames.

What we hold

The paper trail

Court orders, plans and satellite records gathered for the series, ready to be matched to the footage.

Supreme Court · Aarey. The 2019 tree felling case, Mumbai
NGT · Mutha floodplain. Filed by our own interviewee, Sarang Yadwadkar
Supreme Court · Aravalli. The last hills of Delhi NCR
NGT · Parsik Hill. Navi Mumbai
Satellite pairs. Powai 2002 and 2022; the national park edge 2000 and 2023; a Pune riverside 2004 and 2020

Two satellite views of Powai, Mumbai, in 2002 and 2022 — Mumbai · Powai, 2002 and 2022 · Imagery: Google Earth

Court records from the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal on Aarey, the Mutha floodplain, the Aravallis and Parsik Hill

Voices on camera

Our interviewees

Architects, planners, lawyers, activists, researchers, street artists. Next: planners, residents and officials from every city the series visits.

Portrait of Prof. Aneeta Gokhale Benninger

Indrajeet SatbhaiArchitect and street artistMore info →

Visual treatment

A city on trial

Plans, headlines and archive footage are laid out like evidence. Old television sets replay what the city chose to forget.

Collage of plan sheets, newspaper clippings on poisonous lakes, and an old television showing a flyover

How it works on screen

Maps become evidence

Plan sheets, satellite mark ups and headlines, matched to the street and to the people living there.

An old television showing a satellite image with the words: the plan said open space

Creator

Amar Kulkarni

Architect and urban planner with more than ten years in urban governance, sustainable mobility and climate policy, including work embedded in Indian state governments.

He reads a Development Plan and a satellite image as easily as a transcript.