A film on 'Pirana', largest dumping site of Ahmedabad, by a student of National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad has made it to three international film festivals. The documentary made by Nainisha Dedhia, an undergraduate student of NID's film and video design department aims at bringing in light the journey of waste, where it comes from and where exactly it goes once it is tossed in the bin. Interestingly, it is a silent film that does not portray just the problem but eventually puts the onus on the viewer to be responsible for all the dump.

Sharing her experience, Nainisha, who had to go alone to the dumpsite every day to shoot found quite challenging to get the people residing and working at the dumpsite to talk. "Every year while many students think of making a film on Pirana, the stench of the place makes most of them drop the idea. The stench did affect me as well but that is what I wanted to portray. The film shows visuals including smoke, dogs which are a menace there, lives of people, muddy water, etc and eventually it ends when I show the contrast of a shopping mall, grocery shops, etc."

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