Student makes short film on empty roads

Kochi: The city roads wore a deserted look throughout days and nights for one and a half months due to the

lockdown

and a 14-year-old boy has made as short film on these empty roads. The film, ‘Silent Roads’, was made by

Sreehari Rajesh

, a Class IX student of Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Eroor.

The three-minute film visualizes empty city roads during the lockdown. Sreehari, who was a volunteer of ‘Nanma-Feed a Stomach’ programme by the police during the lockdown, shot the visuals in his mobile during his travel as part of the service in the city in two days. The video shows almost all major roads in the city and places like railway stations, bus stations, which usually witness heavy traffic.

“I have never seen the city roads lying empty ever in my life except at midnights and during hartals. Kochi is one of the busiest cities in the state and its empty roads showed how a small virus has changed the daily lives of everyone irrespective of their social status. I thought the video would be a record of the difficult times we are facing now,” said Sreehari.

Sreehari has made two other films earlier. “I have made a short film against drugs named ‘PUKA-The Killing Smoke’. The second one was a documentary ‘The Change-Let’s Make It Happen’. It was about sea level rise due to global warming.