Rickshaw and Rickshawpuller

A small documentary on Rickshaw and Rickshawpuller of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. The documentary having the follwing story: Dhaka is the city of rickshaw. With aesthetic glimmer firth rickshaw in Chittagong in 1919. In Dhaka rickshaw first appear in 1938. One landlord of old Dhaka first brought this vehicle in the capital. Once rickshaw was consider as gorgeous van. According to city corporation, there are seventy six thousand in Dhaka. With vision of a good life, the illiterate villagers migrant to Dhaka after fighting with poverty. But don't get job. At last take rickshaw pulling like hard job. After whole day hard job they return with weak body and mind. With limited income they can not maintain family properly. So wife also join in income generation, do job as housemaid or garments worker. Because of poverty can not send children to school. One son also become rickshaw puller like father. Such a way going on their life circle. By: Jahangiar Alam

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YouTube | February 11, 2007

Tags:. .rickshaw. .illiterate. .glimmer. .dhaka. .landlord