A Tale of the Jamuna River.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (60 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Kino-Eye Films, 2002.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Descending from Tibet and crossing the whole Assam 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 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 river 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.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed January 13, 2025).