Our Land

Set during one of Indias main peasant risings the Telangana insurrection between 1945 and 1951 in the preIndependence state of Hyderabad the Bengali directors first feature tells the story of Chanders bestknown novel Jab Khet Jaage 1948 from the peasants point of view A young peasant Ramiah rebels against the corrupt rule of the nizam and when his girlfriend has to submit to the potentates sexual coercion Ramiah leaves He befriends a Marxist activist the rising was CPIinspired and participates in the Independence struggle