The beauty of Bangladeshi cinema
View(s):A collection of recently released Bangladeshi movies, some of which have won international awards will be screened at the Bangladesh Film Festival in Colombo from March 23 to 25 at the National Film Corporation cinema hall.
The screening will be at 10.30 am, 3.30 pm and 5 pm and the entrance for the film festival will be free of charge.
The festival will be kicked off with ‘Doob: No Bed of Roses’ directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. It will be screened at 5.30 pm on March 23 and at 10.30 am on March 25.
A 2017 Bangladesh-India co-production drama film, the film story builds up around the members of two families discovering the finer fabric of love when the head of a family dies. The theme is that death doesn’t always take things away: Sometimes it gives back. ‘Doob: No Bed of Roses’ had been selected for the main competition section of the 39th Moscow International Film Festival and won the Kommersant Weekend Prize at the festival.
‘Anil Bagchir Ekdin’, based on Humayun Ahmed’s novel of the same name will be screend at 10.30 am on March 24. Directed by Morshedul Islam, the film won six awards, including those for Best Film and Best Director at the 40th Bangladesh National Film Awards.
Twenty six year old Anil Bagchi has been a timid person from his childhood. He works for an insurance company in Dhaka and lives in a house with others. His school-teacher father and the only elder sister Atoshi live in their village Rupeshwar. His mother had died at his birth. The idealist and honest father has tried to imbue his ideals in Anil.
‘Aynabazi’, 2016 crime thriller is the debut feature by filmmaker Amitabh Reza Chowdhury. It will be screened at 5.30 pm on March 24.
Ayna is an actor and the prison is his stage. He slips into the characters of the powerful convicted in exchange for money and takes their places in prison. This strange profession is born out of a society that doesn’t give him a chance to follow his passion of acting, but forces him to act in real life. Falling in love with the girl next door changes his life equation and he decides to end this career with one last performance.
Bangladeshi comedy drama ‘Television’ directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki wilk be screened at 3 pm on March 25.
The film was Selected as the Bangladeshi entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards.
‘Bhuban Majhi’, a 2017 film based on the Bangladeshi War of Independence will be screened at 3 pm on March 24.
It was directed and produced by Fakhrul Arefeen Khan and revolves around a journey of four decades with love and passion. Things will arrive as certain threat while characters are moving through a real history. End turns to endless.
‘Under Construction’ is a Bengali narrative feature film written and directed by Rubaiyat Hossain, and it narrates around a modern Muslim woman who is struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh. The film will be screened at 6 pm on March 25.
(SRF)
