Badal Shahid

‘The Golden Wings of Watercocks’ is a feature film based on the lives, livelihoods and battle for survival of the marginalized peasants and landless farmhands, living in the haor (marshland) areas of Bangladesh, who are historically trapped in poverty formed by the confluence of social exploitation and climate injustice.

Peyara is an unfortunate woman. She has been married to an older man by her uncle in return for some money. she is disappointed to know that her husband is a coffin maker. she pushes her husband away citing the stench of his body sweat. sexually aroused aynal munshi becomes furious. the grumpy old man forcefully has intercourse with the bride. he rapes her day after day, peyara is going mad due to the repeated rape. she decides to take revenge. aynal munshi, poisoned by peyara is now demented by datura (a plant) poisoning. he can smell the rotting corpse on his body. meanwhile, peyara's ex-boyfriend hashem arrives as the new carpenter at munshi's factory...

The depiction of a deprived person is the Nekabbarer. He who lost his wealth in the wrong way, joined the liberation war of 1971, he lost his lover, lost a leg in the war. After the war crippled the rest of the life has to be spent. He had to stay in the madhouse. Nekabbarer went out of the garrison to starve, got the deprivation of society and the lance. Nekabbarer faced death, for ending their deprivation.