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Mayadweep, set in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India, is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. The Bikaner Gang Canal, a project designed to bring perennial waters to irrigate the parched land of the desert area.

Mayadweep (An Island of Illusion), set in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India, is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. At the heartland of The Great Indian Desert (The Thar Desert) where the epicenter of all the uprisings being an age old water canal system, The Bikaner Gang Canal. An ambitious project designed to bring perennial waters to irrigate the parched land of the desert area. As it is rightly said, every shortage that happens becomes a political weapon in this world. So, water has become a political weapon now. The film explores the two most important questions prevailing in the habitable areas surrounding the deserts : How the f..k did we get here, and how the f..k do we get out.

Mayadweep (An Island of Illusion) chronicles the diverse set of circumstances that resulted in the institution of the iconic Bikaner Gang Canal in the Western Indian region of Rajasthan. The film then diagnoses a context in the present-day that parallels the events of its early twentieth-century recollection. It therefore establishes a legacy of aristocratic apathy, the suffering it yields, and the social upheaval that results. The film attempts to mimic the spiritual, visual, and aural landscape of the site of its central events; the desert. In this, it affects a deliberate sparseness to simulate existence inside a vast, grotesque chamber, where a thousand legends travel on the wind, and where ghosts of a distant past whisper into the ears of the ones who are alert to their lament. The film explores our relationship with water and how it shapes humanity. The documentary is about water, money, politics, and the transformation of nature. The film chronicles the growth of a large community in Rajasthan, India, located near to The Great Indian Desert (The Thar Desert) because of a water canal system, The Bikaner Gang Canal. The canal brought abundance, and the legacy of risk it has created in the region and around presently. The movie highlights how communities across this region are dramatically suffering from a lack of our most valuable resource, thanks to drought, pollution and other factors. It becomes apparent that although this issue demands an immediate, workable solution, the problem is not easily resolved.