Description
Nachintapur is a Muslim village in Bangladesh. Although the land is fertile nearly all the villagers live in poverty. This programme is about Abdul Guerney and his family, the lives they lead and the impact of a rice threshing machine on them and on the village. Unemployment is one of the results, for example enabling landowners to install pumps which replace the irrigation hitherto done by landless peasants. A VSO volunteer is involved in the production of the thresher, and although his work is important it is incidental to the main themes of the film. The women are confined to the home but do hard manual work such as threshing. The children also work. Although made in 1988 this film is of anthropological interest.