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Always Coca Cola

2006 · 29 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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In Varanasi, communities accuse Coca-Cola of seizing land and draining groundwater for one of its factories, and the film follows their long fight to get authorities to act. One farmer sums up the toll bluntly: "The Coca Cola factory ruined my life." Local residents describe falling water tables and land they say was occupied illegally, while company spokesman Rajiv Singh denies any responsibility, insisting "we are not the problem." The film sets these two accounts side by side without smoothing over the gap between them, tracking years of protest that eventually push authorities to move against the company's hold on community land. It stays close to the people affected, letting farmers and locals describe the daily consequences of a water-intensive factory operating in a water-scarce region, rather than framing the dispute in abstract corporate terms. The eviction that closes the film is presented as a hard-won result of sustained local pressure, not a neat resolution, and Coca-Cola's denial stands unresolved against the residents' testimony throughout.