Descending from Tibet and crossing the whole Asam valley the Brahmaputra river, after entering into Bangladesh, has taken the name— the Jamuna. An off-shoot of the mighty Brahmaputra, the present Jamuna, created by an earthquake in the eighteenth century, now itself is a major river of the world. The Jamuna, a braided river rather than a meandering one, becomes full of shoals during dry season and looks more like a lake than a river. Only in monsoon the whole of the Jamuna becomes one river. The film-maker, along with his crew, followed the path of the Jamuna on a boat towards downstream to reach where the Padma, another major river of the Indian sub-continent, has confluenced with the Jamuna. The film deals with the different aspects of the Jamuna river—its vastness, its erosion, its shoals, its fishes, and the most interesting aspect, the people living on its banks. The film contains a series of interviews with fishermen, farmers, weavers, boat-makers, folk-singers who all tell the impact of the Jamuna on their lives and their feelings about this mighty river. The interviewees include, from a veteran fisherman to a housewife whose homestead has been eroded by the river to a small boy who sells egg in the ferries. A journey-film and shot with an open-mind, the film-unit recorded what they had experienced on their journey in one of the world's widest and most fascinating river—the Jamuna.
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILM
Title of the film: "A TALE OF THE JAMUNA RIVER" ( Oie Jamuna) Genre: Documentary Original idea: Anjan Chowdhury Pintu Format: Betacam Length: 60 minutes Videography: Anwar Hossain Camera assistants : Tanay Sarkar, Rezaul Haque Ripon, Tofael Ahmed Editor: Mahadeb Shi Assistant editor : Arya Maitra Music: Syed Shabab Ali Arzoo Voice: Debashish Bose Assistant Director: Sarwar Chowdhury Chief Assistant Director: Jaibul Anam Khan Production assistants: Mohammed Wasim, Kalyan Patra , Nibash Chisim, Chand Mia Produced by: Massranga Productions Production Year: 2002 Script & Direction: Tanvir Mokammel
