FILM AND

DOCUMENTARY

OF

BANGLADESH

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Group - A

Batch-8th

Semester-4th

Dept. Of Architecture

SUBMITTED TO-

SHAMSHAD CHOWDHURY

Assistant Professor

FDT Department

GROUP MEMBERS:

• Tazrima Parvin Tonima

• Sumaiya Islam

• Nabila Tabassum Haque

• Tamanna Parvin

• Fatema Shetu

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Origin of Bangladeshi Movie & Documentary

The dominant style of Bangladeshi cinema is melodramatic cinema.

first bioscope was shown in Dhaka at the Crown Theatre (now lost) in

Patuatuli, near Sadarghat by English Stephenson.

The first seeds of the Bengali film industry was sown by Hiralal Sen. He started

his own Bioscope company, which became widely famous as the Royal Bioscope

Company .

IN THE MIDST(1948) was the first informational film of Bangladesh by Nazir

Ahmed when the Governor-General of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah came

to visit East Pakistan then he was given to make an informational film.

After the Bengali Language Movement in 1952 encouraged the sincere Bengalis

for their freedom. Within two years “Co-operative film Makers Ltd.” Was

formed for film making.

The first full-length feature film with sound made in East Pakistan was The

FACE AND THE MASK which was directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan.

Nazir Ahmed played an important role in the establishment of FDC.

Government made him the creative director of FDC.

Origin of Bangladeshi Movie & Documentary

Jibon Theke Neya (1970) by Zahir Raihan became a landmark film in the

history of the country and it had a great influence on the liberation of

Bangladesh.

In 1971, the year of independence only 6 Bengali films and 2 Urdu films made by

East Bengal were released before the Bangladesh Liberation War.

The first full-length feature film of Bangladesh was Ora Egaro Jon released in

1972.

The 1970s and 1980s were a golden era for Bangladeshi film industry

commercially and critically.

In the 1980s most of the Bangladeshi commercial films were influenced in film-

making, style and presentation by Indian movies, mostly Hindi movies from

Maharashtra.

In the 1990s most of the Bangladeshi movies were dominate by mainstream

commercial movies.

During the 2000s, most Bangladeshi films began doing poor business and

Bangladesh produced about 100 low-budget movies a year.

But from 2012 Bangladesh Film Industry is again stepping toward success.

There are so many notable

personalities in Bangladesh

film industry. But we have

picked some of them and

their works to represent

BANGLADESH MOVIE AND

DOCUMENTARY

Tanvir MokammelBorn 8 March 1955 (age 62)Khulna, East Pakistan, Pakistan

Education University of Dhaka

Occupation Filmmaker, writer

Years active 1984–present

Tanvir Mokammel has made six full-length feature and fourteen documentaries and

short films. Some of his films have received national and international awards. His

feature films are “The River Named Modhumoti” ,“Quiet Flows the River Chitra” ,“A

Tree Without Roots”(LALSALU) ,“Lalon” and “The Sister” (RABEYA) and "The

Drummer" (Jibondhuli). Tanvir Mokammel’s prominent documentaries are; “The

Garment Girls of Bangladesh”, “The Unknown Bard”, “Teardrops of Karnaphuli”,

“Riders to the Sunderbans”, “A Tale of the Jamuna River”, “The Promised Land”,

“Tajuddin Ahmad :An Unsung Hero”, “The Japanese Wife” and mega-

documentary “1971”.

A prolific writer, Tanvir Mokammel has written articles on cinema and cultural issues in

newspapers, poems and short stories. Tanvir Mokammel’s important books are “A Brief

History of World Cinema”, “The Art of Cinema”, “Charlie Chaplin: Conquests by a

Tramp”, “Syed Waliullah, Sisyphus and Quest of Tradition in Novel” (a literary

criticism), “The Lower Depth”.

Tanvir Mokammel is at present the director of “Bangladesh Film Institute” (BFI).

Background (Quite Flows the River Chitra)

• Directed by Tanvir Mokammel

• Produced by Tanvir Mokammel

• Written by Tanvir Mokammel

• Soundtrack Syed Shabab Ali Arzoo.

• Release date 1999

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Cast

Afsana Mimi -

Minoti

Momtajuddin

Ahmed-

Shashikanta Sengupta

Toukir Ahmed -

BadalOthersSumita Devi

Nazmul Huda

Rawshan Jamil -

Anuprova

Plot or Summary • It is a feature film on destiny of a Hindu family in East Pakistan.

• After the partition of India in 1947, Shashikanta family, like millions of other Hindu families of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), faced the dilemma whether to migrate from the land in which they have been living for centuries.

• But Shashikanta Sengupta, an eccentric lawyer, stubbornly refuses to leave his motherland. Widower Shashikanta has two children, Minoti and Bidyut. Anuprava Devi is an affectionate old aunt who lives with the family. The family has a house in Narail, a small provincial town on the bank of the Chitra river. Some Muslim neighbours eye Shashaikanta's house. But the family refuse to migrate.

• Shashikanta's children Minoti and Bidyut are friends with the neighboring Muslim children— Badal, Salma and Nazma. Minoti and Badal become more than friends.

• The children grow up. Badal goes to Dhaka University. Those were the days in 1960s when the atmosphere of the universities was charged with political radicalism. Badal got involved in anti-military student movement and while participating in a demonstration for democracy was killed by police firing.

• Shashikanta's brother Nidhukanta is an idealist doctor who lives in their ancestral village on the other side of the Chitra River. During the 1964 riot between the Hindus and the Muslims, his daughter Basanti, a widow, is raped. Basanti commits suicide by drowning herself in the Chitra River. Nidhukanta's family migrate to India.

• All these untoward incidents happening around affect Shashikanta's failing health. He suffers a heart stroke and passes away. Minoti and Anuprava finally leave for the border en route to Calcutta.

Plot or Summary (continue) ….

Hearing Badal’s death news, Minoti felt sad and tried to remember the memory of their happy moments

Basanti, a widow, is raped and

committed suicide in Chitra river.

Realization

• As a wonderful creation of God, we have

to maintain our brotherhood.

• No sectarianism.

• Respect other religion.

Documentary about child marriage in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has the highest rate of child marriage of girls under the age of 15 in the world, with 29 percent of girls in Bangladesh married before age 15, according to a UNICEF study. Two percent of girls in Bangladesh are married before age 11. Successive inaction by the central government and complicity by local officials allows child marriage, including of very young girls, to continue unchecked, while Bangladesh’s high vulnerability to natural disasters puts more girls at risk as their families are pushed into the poverty that helps drive decisions to have girls married.

HUMAYUN AHMED•Humayun Ahmed (13 November 1948 – 19

July 2012)- Bangladeshi writer, dramatist,

screenwriter, and filmmaker.

• Breakthrough- debut novel Nondito Noroke

(1972).

•Wrote over bestsellers 200 fiction and non-

fiction books.

•Famous movies-Shonkhonil Karagar,Aguner

Poroshmoni,Srabon MegherDin,Dui

Duari,Chandrokotha,Shyamol

Chhaya,Nondito Noroke,Noy Number Bipod

Sanket,Ghetuputra Komola etc…….

•Notable work-Jostnya O Jononeer Golpo

•Won Six Bangladesh National Film Awards in

different categories for the films -Daruchini

Dwip, Aguner Poroshmoni and Ghetuputra

Komola.

•Other Notable awards-Bangla Academy

Award,Ekushey Padak.

Srabon Megher Din-

a Bangladeshi drama film based on

the Novel of Humayun Ahmed.

Produced by-Nuhash Film

Written by-Humayun Ahmed

Starring-Zahid Hasan, Mahfuz

Ahmed, Meher Afroz Shaon,

Mukt,iAnwara, Golam Mustafa,

Saleh Ahmed.

Music by-Maksud Jamil Mintu

Cinematography-Mahfuzur

Rahman Khan

Edited by-Atiqur Rahman Mollik

Distributed by-Nuhash Films

Release date-2000

Srabon Megher Din

Moti (Zahid Hasan) is a

folk singer in a village and

a girl from that village

Kusum (Meher Afroz

Shaon) fall in love with

him, even though she

tries to hide it. The story

take a turn when Suruj

Miah (Mahfuz Ahmed)

came in, who is brought

by Kusum’s father (Saleh

Ahmed) to give marry her

with him. But tragedy hits

in the end. Love, conflict,

sorrow, tragedy all are the

part in the movie.

Srabon Megher Din

Some scenes

Documentary

It is a 1995 Bangladeshi documentary film.

Directed by-Tareque Masud & Catherine

Masud

Produced by-Tareque Masud

Cinematography-Lear Levin

Edited by-Catherine Masud

Production company-AudiovisionRelease date-1995

It explores the impact of cultural

identity on the Bangladesh Liberation

War in 1971, where music and song

provided a source of inspiration to

the freedom fighters and

a spiritual bond for the whole emerging

nation.

Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom)

Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom)

Tareq Masood

Tareque Masud was one of the best film maker of

our country. He gave the new side of Bangladesh’s

film industry and he took the film industry at the

world class level.

Tareque Masud was born on 6 December 1956 in

Nurpur village, Bhanga Upazila, Faridpur District,

Bangladesh.

Masud died in a road accident near Ghior Upazila on

13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from

Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway.

Style – Basically he used to make films on

Bangladesh’s culture issues, social problems,

liberation war and mostly about his life.

Career - Adam Surat, Muktir Gaan,

Matir Moyna, Ontorjatra,

Norosundor, Kagojer Ful

Background:

•Directed by - Tareque Masud•Produced by - Catherine Masud•Written by - Catherine Masud and Tareque Masud•Cast - Nurul Islam Bablu, Jayanto

Chattopadhyay , Rokeya Prachy, SoaebIslam and many more…

•Awards - 5 wins & 3 nominations Cannes Film Festival Directors Guild of Great Britain National Film Awards, Bangladesh Kerala International Film Festival Marrakech International Film Festival

•Release date - May 17, 2002

Plot :The film is set against the backdrop

of unrest in East Pakistan in the late

1960s leading up to

the Bangladesh War of Liberation.

In this setting, a small family must

come to grips with its culture, its

faith, and the brutal political

changes entering its small-town

world.

A shattering political development

then changes their town, their life,

and the inner dynamics of the

family, including the patriarch's

role.

TRAILER OF THE MOVIE:

Documentary Of Bangladesh

Creative Idea: Gousul Alam ShaonCopy Writing: Anam

Beautiful Bangladesh - School of life

CLIP OF THE DOCUMENTARY:

Mostofa Sarwar FarookiFarooki is considered one of the leading

figures to bring modernism/realism in

Bangladeshi cinema.

Born on 2nd May,1973 at Nakhalpara ,Dhaka,

Bangladesh.

CINEMATIC STYLE: Middle class angst,

urban youth romance, deception-hypocrisy

and frailty of individual, frustration about the

confines of one's culture and conservative

Muslim concepts of guilt and redemption. To

counter the deprivation they face in real life,

his characters often seem to create a fantasy

world around them

CAREER: Bachelor(2003)

Made In Bangladesh(2007)

Third Person Singular

Number(2009)

Televiion(2013)

Doob (2017)

By Mostafa Sarwar Farooqi

Directed by

Mostofa

Sarwar

Farooqi

Cast

• Kazi Huda

Rumi

• Chanchal

Chowdhur

y

• Mosharrof

Karif

• Tisha

Released in

January

25, 2013

Written by

Mostofa

Sarwar

Farooqi

&

Anisul Hoque

Music by

Ayub

Bachchu

Chirkut

Produced by

Chabial

Here, family

employee Mojnu is

convincing some

people to call

Chairman Amin at

night.

Here he is in

dilemma because his

moral and rule is

being challenged by

a Hindu tutor who

bought TV.so he cant

decide what he

should do.

In this point of

movie Chairman

Mr.Amin

insulted Kohinur

for not listening

to him and for

watching TV.

The subject of the film is both a literal and a metaphorical one at the

same time.

In one sense Amin Chairman is right because his motive is to save

villagers from negative impacts of technology .

But he is totally unaware of technology’s positive side. After

watching Hazz program in Television he realized.

In this movie there is another thing, that is little knowledge in religion

is very dangerous. But it is still practicing by many rural people of

Bangladesh.

There is still a huge generation gap present in this 21st

century.

For Bangladeshi people

Farakka Badh is a curse. By

stopping the natural flow of

mighty river GANGES , we

bring misfortune for us. It

causes lack of pure water, lack

of fertile land and also

hampers so much on our

fishery industry and fishers so

on. But during rainy season

when India opens the gates, it

becomes flood here.

It is also a misfortune for

India also. In Bihar they suffer

from flood for the badh.

So the documentary is on the

disadvantages of FARAKKA

BADH on both sides.

CONCLUSION

After all the reviews you all can now see that the

films and documentaries of Bangladesh are very

popular and also it was rich . The outlook of our

Bangladeshi films have changed a lot. Nowadays

people from all walks of life are going to theatre

and cinema hall to enjoy the films. Documentaries

of our country are also very popular in virtual world.

People are finding their interests in watching and

making documentary clips and films. So we would

like to say please go to film theatres and watch our

own films..

Thank You