Dam999 has been in the news for a while now, for various reasons. The director and writer, Sohan Roy, is an ex Marine Engineer, who based the movie on his own short documentary, Dams - The Lethal Water Bombs.
The motivating force behind both these works is the 1975 Banqiao Dam incident in China, in which 2,50,000 people lost their lives. The director could not ignore the possibility of a similar occurrence in his home state, in which the archaic Mullaperiyar Dam is still functional.
To begin with, Dam999 does not get into the details of the 999-year-old lease in w....