বাংলাদেশে বন্যা: A video documentary on catastrophic flood of 2007 in Bangladesh. Due to river rein and flat terrain geology, flood becomes annual disaster in Bangladesh. Although it become part of Bangladesh life and environment, but some appear with catastrophic phases. Of that time the people particularly rural poor suffered lots. Among the catastrophic floods of Bangladesh occurred after independence, the flood of 2007 is one. In the year 2007, including Dhaka, almost whole country was under water. The area which never gone under flood that areas also were affected. The flood water washed away villages, towns, cattle and crops! Two thirds of the country has been effected severely!
Communication system was fully collapsed ! Affected helpless people suffered a lot. The rural poor took shelter in the embankments, schools and in shelter centers . There is an extreme scarcity of drinking water. As a result lot of people especially children has been died. People passed the day with wordless misery for three weeks.
Twenty districts including Tangail, Sirajganj, Shunamganj, Manikganj, Kurigram and Jamalpur were worstly affected. Various epidemics and waterborne diseases including cholera and diarrhea will spread after flood water reduce. The post flood rehabilitation; lack of food, repairing affected infrastructures and road repairing will be another challenge.
Script, film and edit : Shahjahan Siraj | Narration: J. Alam | Subtitle: Arham Chowdhury
Signer: Alta and Surjo | Coordination: Kamrul Hasan