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Akash Ar Mati
''Akash Ar Mati'' (''The Sky and the Earth'') is a 1959 black and white film directed by Fateh Lohani and produced by Film Development Corporation (FDC). It was the first sound feature produced in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) including post-production, though like ''Mukh O Mukhosh'' (''The Face and the Mask''), the first Bengali-language film made in East Pakistan, it used some cast and crew from the West Bengal film industry. Background ''Akash Ar Mati'' was actor-director Fateh Lohani's second venture. ''Satrang'', an Urdu film directed by him was released in 1965. He based ''Akash ar Mati'' on one of dramatist Bidhayak Bhattacharya's stories. A musical film, it was thematically ambitious. But it suffered from poor technical knowledge and the inexperience of film-makers of Dhaka. The film flopped commercially. Legendary Bangladeshi actress Sumita Devi, Fazlul Karirt, Pradip, the first Bangladeshi hero Aminul Haque, Dagu, Ali, Zinat, Rablul, Madhuri, Tejon, and Ranon acted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fateh Lohani
Fateh Lohani (1920 – 12 April 1975) was a Bangladeshi actor, film director, writer and journalist. Education Lohani passed Matriculation examination from St Mary's Cathedral Mission High School in Calcutta. He completed his IA and BA degrees from Ripon College in Kolkata. In 1950, he went to London and completed a two years course on drama producing at the Oldwick Theatre School. He took film education as a member of the British Film Institute. . Career Lohani was involved in publication of the monthly literature magazine Agatya since 1949. In 1949, he joined the Karachi Radio and later, BBC. He returned to Dhaka in 1954 and started producing films and simultaneously, worked in radio, acted in drama and carried out the profession of writing. He was the first director of a feature film after the establishment of Film Development Corporation in 1957. Some of the dramas written by Lohani are Nibhrita Sanglap, Dur Thekey Kachhey and Sagar Dola. He translated some dramas such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Sun (Bangladesh)
''Daily Sun'' is an English-language daily newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh, founded in 2010. It also operates an English news portal www.daily-sun.com and a Bangla news portal www.bangla.daily-sun.com apart from maintaining a website www.edailysun.com for the e-version of the published copies. The main paper has 24 pages including 4 pages on business and 2 pages on sports which is called "Winner". 'the daily sun' is owned by East West Media Group, a concern of Bashundhara Group. Description The ''Daily Sun'' is an English-language daily newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Also it publishes bangla-language daily news. It was founded in 2010. The main paper has 28 pages including 4 pages on business and 8 pages on sports which is called "Winner". When the paper criticised the shipping minister's role in granting licences and violation of traffic rules by drivers, transport workers raided and looted delivery vehicles. A Daily Sun journalist based in New York, Santos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladeshi Musical Films
Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the permanent residents of the former East Pakistan were transformed into citizens of a new republic. Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous nation. The vast majority of Bangladeshis are ethnolingustically Bengalis, an Indo-Aryan people. The population of Bangladesh is concentrated in the fertile Bengal delta, which has been the center of urban and agrarian civilizations for millennia. The country's highlands, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts and parts of the Sylhet Division, are home to various tribal minorities. Bengali Muslims are the predominant ethnoreligious group of Bangladesh with a population of 150.36 million, which makes up 91.04% of the country's population as of 2022. The minority Bengali Hindu population made up appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali-language Pakistani Films
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India. With approximately 300 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the fifth most-spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language. Bengali is the official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also a second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. It is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Musical Films
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive archipelago ( Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Films
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with '' Ben-Hur'' winning a record 11 Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 23 – Republic Pictures releases its last production, ''Plunderers of Painted Flats''. *January 29 – Walt Disney's ''Sleeping Beauty'' premieres, their most expensive film to date and the first animated film to be shot in Super Technirama 70. It initially ends up losing money for the studio due to its high production costs. However, it would eventually gain a cult following and is now considered one of Disney's great classics. *April 30 – François Truffaut's ''The 400 Blows'' opens the 1959 Cannes Film Festival bringing international attention to the French New Wave. * June 4 – The Three Stooges release their 190th and last short film, ''Sappy Bull Fighters''. * June 7 – A contract between Paramount and Jerry Lewis Productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Bangladesh
The Bangladeshi Cinema, better known as Dhallywood ( bn, ঢালিউড), is the Bengali-language film industry based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It has often been a significant film industry since the early 1970s. The dominant style of Bangladeshi cinema is melodramatic cinema, which developed from 1947 to 1990 and characterizes most films to this day. Cinema was introduced in Bangladesh in 1898 by the Bradford Bioscope Company, credited to have arranged the first film release in Bangladesh. Between 1913 and 1914, the first production company, Picture House, was opened. A 1928 short silent film titled ''Sukumari'' () was the first Bengali-produced film in the region. The first full-length film, ''The Last Kiss (1931 film), The Last Kiss'', was released in 1931. Following the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan, Dhaka became the center of the Bangladeshi film industry, and has generated the majority share of revenue, production and audiences for Dhallywood films. ''Mukh O Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabiul Alam
Rabiul Alam (1939 - 18 April, 1987)was a Bangladeshi film actor. He was known for acting in comic roles. He appeared in over 100 movies. Biography Alam made his debut in Dhallywood with ''Akash Ar Mati'' in 1959. He also appeared in films like ''Nil Akasher Niche'', ''Chowdhury Bari'', ''Alor Michil'', ''Gunda'' and ''Chhutir Ghonta''. Alam died in 1987. Selected filmography * ''Akash Ar Mati'' (1959) * ''Nil Akasher Niche'' (1969) * ''Chowdhury Bari'' (1972) * ''Alor Michil'' (1974) * ''Gunda'' (1976) * ''Chhutir Ghonta ''Chhutir Ghonta'' ( bn, ছুটির ঘণ্টা '' When The Bell Rang'') is a 1980 Bangladeshi drama film written and directed by Azizur Rahman. It stars Razzak, Shabana, Sujata and Sumon in the lead. It is based on the true story of a ...'' (1980) References External links * 1987 deaths Bangladeshi male film actors 1939 births People from Murshidabad district Bengali Muslims 20th-century Bengalis Male actors from West Bengal { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subal Das
Subal Das (26 December 192816 August 2005) was a Bangladeshi music director and composer. He was the music director of the first film developed in Film Development Corporation (FDC), ''Akash aar Mati''. He directed music of 86 films. Early life Das was born on 27 December 1927 in Brahmanbaria District, East Bengal, British Raj. Career Das took music lessons from Ustad Israel Khan, nephew of musician Ustad Alauddin Khan. Das started working for the radio in 1963. Das had been suffering from anal cancer. He died of cardiac arrest on 16 August 2005 at the Lifeline Hospital in Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ..., India. Personal life Das was married to Aporna Das (d. 1996). Between 1948 and 1956, Das played football for Dhaka Azad Sporting Club. discograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Islam
Anwarul Islam (known as Baby Islam; 1931 – 24 May 2010) was a Bangladeshi cinematographer and film director. He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Cinematography for the film (1975). Early life and education Islam was born in 1931 in Murshidabad, West Bengal to Abdul Hossain Biswas and Motaharun Nessa. He went to a missionary school in Sealdah and moved to Cathedral Mission High School. He matriculated in 1945 before attending Bangabasi College, under the University of Calcutta. Career Islam started his career as the assistant of Bengali film director Ajoy Kar. In 1956, he joined as a senior photographer at the Information Department in Dhaka. He served as the general manager of Film Development Corporation (FDC). Islam was the cinematographer of notable films including ''Harano Sur'', ''Bor Didi'', ''Saptapadi'', ''Saat Paake Bandha'' and ''Kabuliwala''. He worked with filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak on two films, ''Titash Ekti Nadir Naam'' and ''Jukti Takko Aar Gap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aminul Haque (actor)
Aminul Haque (1921–2011) was a Bangladeshi actor, known for his role in ''Mukh O Mukhosh'', the first Bengali-language feature film to be made in East Pakistan. He was married to actress Pyari Begum (d. 2023) who also had a role in ''Mukh O Mukhosh''. Filmography * ''Mandir'' * ''Mukh O Mukhosh'' (1956) * ''Akash Ar Mati'' (1959) * ''Tomar Amar'' (1961) * ''Jowar Elo'' (1962) * ''Godhulir Prem'' (1965) * ''Aporajeyo'' (1967) * ''Epar Opar'' (1975) * ''Achena Atithi'' (1978) * ''Nazma'' (1983) * ''Chapa Dangar Bou'' (1986) * ''Rabeya'' (2008) as Emdad Kazi's uncle Honours Haque was awarded the Ekushey Padak Ekushey Padak ( bn, একুশে পদক; lit. "Twentyfirst Award") is the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh, introduced in memory of the martyrs of the Bengali Language Movement of 1952. The award is given to recognize contribut ... in 1991 for his contributions to drama. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Haque, Aminul 1921 births 2011 deaths Bangladeshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city in the world with a population of 8.9 million residents as of 2011, and a population of over 21.7 million residents in the Greater Dhaka Area. According to a Demographia survey, Dhaka has the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world, and is popularly described as such in the news media. Dhaka is one of the major cities of South Asia and a major global Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks 39th in the world and 3rd in South Asia in terms of urban GDP. As part of the Bengal delta, the city is bounded by the Buriganga River, Turag River, Dhaleshwari River and Shitalakshya River. The area of Dhaka has been inhabited since the first millennium. An early modern city developed from the 17th century as a provincial capital and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
