Bangladeshi film & documentary of different time showing different social problems.

1. FILM AND
DOCUMENTARY
OF
BANGLADESH

2. SUBMITTED BY :
Group - A
Batch-8th
Semester-4th
Dept. Of Architecture
SUBMITTED TO-
SHAMSHAD CHOWDHURY
Assistant Professor
FDT Department

3. GROUP MEMBERS:
• Tazrima Parvin Tonima
• Sumaiya Islam
• Nabila Tabassum Haque
• Tamanna Parvin
• Fatema Shetu
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4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Tanvir Mokammel
Born 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).

9. 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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10. Cast
Afsana Mimi -
Minoti
Momtajuddin
Ahmed-
Shashikanta
Sengupta
Toukir Ahmed -
Badal
Others
Sumita Devi
Nazmul Huda
Rawshan Jamil -
Anuprova

11. 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.

12. • 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) ….

13. 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.

14. Realization
• As a wonderful creation of God, we have
to maintain our brotherhood.
• No sectarianism.
• Respect other religion.

15. 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.

16. 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.

18. 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

19. 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

20. Some scenes

22. Documentary

23. 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-Audiovision
Release 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)

24. Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom)

25. 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

27. Background:
•Directed by - Tareque Masud
•Produced by - Catherine Masud
•Written by - Catherine Masud and Tareque Masud
•Cast - Nurul Islam Bablu, Jayanto
Chattopadhyay , Rokeya Prachy, Soaeb
Islam 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

28. 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.

29. TRAILER OF THE MOVIE:

30. Documentary Of Bangladesh
Creative Idea: Gousul Alam Shaon
Copy Writing: Anam
Beautiful Bangladesh - School of life

31. CLIP OF THE DOCUMENTARY:

32. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Farooki 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)

33. By Mostafa Sarwar Farooqi

34. 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

36. 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.

37.  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.

38. 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.

39. 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..

40. Thank
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