Images of Apocalypse on Screen: Climate Future in the Short Film Carbon: A Story of Tomorrow

Nature has perpetually been utilized as a backdrop in bollywood films in multiple ways. Considering the romantic songs shooted in the beautiful landscapes; the lonely islands in horror films and the deserts, seas and the mountains behind the plot, the relationship between nature and cinema is not newly established. However, it was always difficult to look at the environmental issues underneath these romantic elucidations of the landscapes that seemed perfectly unified to their respective environments. With the turn of the time, as environmental discourses have taken a influential stance at the global level, film makers are also stepping ahead to express their concerns for the environment. This paper aims to ecocritically scrutinize the short film Carbon: A Story of Tomorrow (2017), the first Hindi science fiction film, to recognize the role ecocinema as an emerging field has to play in the worldwide discourses about the effect of popular media on moulding the environmental attitudes of the audience. It further aims to scrutinize the film intensively to recognize the visual elucidation of catastrophes and apocalypse that are fictionalized in ecocinema to make the audience envisage the severity of environmental issues and thus ignite its eco-consciousness.