Abstract

"Chalamaan (meaning “ongoing” in Bengali) is the name of a documentary film and research project based on the last and only remaining tram (streetcar) system in the Indian subcontinent. This system operates in the city of Kolkata, India under the administration of the West Bengal state government and the Calcutta Tramways Company."--Introduction.

Highlights

  • I wanted to make a film based on my memory of the tram system

  • My goal was for this creative work to have strong factual backup, more to convince myself that I was not going on a whimsical trip home but that I was working on a project that might prove meaningful

  • The studies that have been done on the Kolkata tram service have mostly been about worker conflicts in the pre independence era of the Calcutta Tramways Company, and about the current infrastructure of the service

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Introduction

My goal was for this creative work to have strong factual backup, more to convince myself that I was not going on a whimsical trip home but that I was working on a project that might prove meaningful. This led me towards heavily researching the merits of the tram system and the reasons it has been retained so long in this particular city in India. The study done by Eshita Boral (2012), Tramways – An Eco-friendly Mode of Mass Transportation: A Case of Kolkata provides insightful statistics that tell the story of the decline of the Kolkata tram service from the 1970s to present day. In addition there is an establishment of the historical origins of the service

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