Set throughout certainly one of India’s fundamental peasant risings, the Telangana revolt between 1945 and 1951 within the pre-Independence state of Hyderabad, the Bengali director’s first characteristic tells the story of Chander’s best-known novel, Jab Khet Jaage (1948), from the peasant’s viewpoint. A younger peasant, Ramiah, rebels towards the corrupt rule of the nizam, and when his girlfriend has to undergo the potentate’s sexual coercion, Ramiah leaves. He befriends a Marxist activist (the rising was CPI-inspired) and participates within the Independence wrestle.
