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Bangla Cinema
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'', 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 Mukhosh'', the first Bengali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaaz Multimedia
Jaaz Multimedia is a film production and distribution house in Bangladesh. History 2011-2014: Initial Years Jaaz Multimedia released their first film, ''Bhalobasar Rong'' starring Bappy and Mahiya Mahi, in 2012. In 2013, Jaaz Multimedia released four films: '' Onnorokom Bhalobasha'', '' PoraMon'', '' Bhalobasha Aaj Kal'' and '' Tobuo Bhalobashi'', all of which starred Mahiya Mahi. ''PoraMon'' also starred Symon, while the commercial success ''Bhalobasha Aaj Kal'' co-starred Shakib Khan, and ''Tobuo Bhalobashi'' co-starred Bappy. Jaaz Multimedia released seven films in 2014, many of which also starred Mahiya Mahi. ''Ki Darun Dekhte'', ''Dobir Saheber Songsar'' and ''Onek Sadher Moyna'' co-starred Bappy and ''Agnee'' co-starred Arifin Shuvo. 2015-present: Indo-Bangladeshi joint ventures Beginning in 2015, Jaaz Multimedia began releasing Indo-Bangladesh joint venture films with Eskay Movies, which would later lead to the two production houses collaborating on many films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chashi Nazrul Islam
Chashi Nazrul Islam (11 October 1941 – 11 January 2015) was a Bangladeshi film director and producer. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director twice for the films Shuvoda (1986) and Hangor Nodi Grenade (1997). He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2004 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and career Islam was born on 23 October 1941 at Shomoshpur village in Sreenagar Upazila of Munshiganj to Mosleh Uddin Khan and Shayesta Khanom. He was the eldest among four brothers and three sisters. His father was a service holder at Jamshedpur, India. At the age of 16, his father died. He got a job at the office of his uncle, the then auditor general of Pakistan. He was a member of the theatre organisation ''Krishti Sangha''. After Islam got laid off from that job, he started to perform on radio programs in 1965. Islam's brother in law Syed Awal, who was the chief assistant of director Fateh Lohani, introduced him to Lohani. He was first cast in a minor acting role in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste And Louis Lumière
The Lumière brothers (, ; ), Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their ''Cinématographe'' motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which places them among the earliest filmmakers. Their screening of a single film on 22 March 1895 for around 200 members of the "Society for the Development of the National Industry" in Paris was probably the first presentation of projected film. Their first commercial public screening on 28 December 1895 for around 40 paying visitors and invited relations has traditionally been regarded as the birth of cinema. Either the techniques or the business models of earlier filmmakers proved to be less viable than the breakthrough presentations of the Lumières. History The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France, to Charles-Antoine Lumière ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Film
An art film (or arthouse film) is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit", containing "unconventional or highly symbolic content". Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an art film as possessing "formal qualities that mark them as different from mainstream Hollywood films". These qualities can include (among other elements): a sense of social realism; an emphasis on the authorial expressiveness of the director; and a focus on the thoughts, dreams, or motivations of characters, as opposed to the unfolding of a clear, goal-driven story. Film scholar David Bordwell describes art cinema as "a film genre, with its own distinct conventions". Art film producers usually present their films at special theaters ( repertory cinemas or, in the U.S., art- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parallel Cinema
Parallel cinema, or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema. Inspired by Italian Neorealism, Parallel Cinema began just before the French New Wave and Japanese New Wave, and was a precursor to the Indian New Wave of the 1960s. The movement was initially led by Bengali cinema and produced internationally acclaimed filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Tapan Sinha and others. It later gained prominence in other film industries of India. It is known for its serious content, realism and naturalism, symbolic elements with a keen eye on the sociopolitical climate of the times, and for the general rejection of an inserted dance-and-song routines that are typical of mainstream Indian films. History Origins Realism in Indian cinema dates back to the 1920s and 1930s. One of the earliest examples was Baburao Painter's 1925 si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (born 2 May 1973) is a Bangladeshi film director, producer and screenwriter. His films ''Third Person Singular Number'', ''Television'', ''No Bed Of Roses'' were critically acclaimed across the world and received numerous international and national awards. He founded filmmakers' movement called ''"Chabial"''. Early life Farooki was born 2 May 1973 in the Nakhalpara neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He attended Tejgaon Government Boys' High School. Career Farooki has set a new trend in terms of presentation and direction in the early 2000. His debut film was '' Bachelor'' (2003) starring Humayun Faridi, Aupee Karim, Ferdous Ahmed, Shabnur and many others. Then his second film, a political satire ''Made In Bangladesh'' (2007) starring Zahid Hasan, Tariq Anam Khan, Shahiduzzaman Selim and others. His third film ''Third Person Singular Number'' starring Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Topu, Mosharraf Karim was premiered in Busan International Film Festival (2009). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubaiyat Hossain
Rubaiyat Hossain ( bn, রুবাইয়াত হোসেন) is a Bangladeshi film director, writer, and producer. She made the films ''Meherjaan'' (2011), '' Under Construction'' (2015) and '' Made in Bangladesh'' (2019). Education Inspired by the works of Satyajit Ray, Hossain pursued her interest in cinema and completed a diploma in film direction at New York Film Academy in 2002. She has also completed a B. A. in women studies from Smith College, and an M. A. in South Asian studies from the University of Pennsylvania and M. A. in Cinema Studies from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in the United States. Her primary fields of interest are Sufism, Bengali nationalism, formation of Bengali modernity and its correlation with female sexuality. Career Filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain's works reflect social realism and use a feminist lens to deconstruct the otherwise phallocentric institution of cinema. Rubaiyat debuted as a feature filmmaker in 2011 with ''Mehe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humayun Ahmed
Humayun Ahmed (; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and professor. His breakthrough was his debut novel '' Nondito Noroke'' published in 1972. He wrote over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, many of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh. His books were the top sellers at the Ekushey Book Fair during the 1990s and 2000s. He won the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1981 and the Ekushey Padak in 1994 for his contribution to Bengali literature. In the early 1990s, Ahmed emerged as a filmmaker. He went on to make a total of eight films - each based on his own novels. He received six Bangladesh National Film Awards in different categories for the films ''Daruchini Dip'', '' Aguner Poroshmoni'' and ''Ghetuputra Komola''. He has his own production company named Nuhash Chalachitra. Considered as one of the cornerstones in modern Bengali literature, his works are characterized by non-violence, reali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morshedul Islam
Morshedul Islam (born 1 December 1958) is a Bangladeshi film director. His notable films include ''Agami'' (1984), ''Chaka'' (1993), ''Dipu Number Two'' (1996), '' Dukhai'' (1997), ''Khelaghor'' (2006), ''Durotto'' (2006) and ''Amar Bondhu Rashed'' (2011). Biography Islam was born on 1 December 1958 in Dhaka. He made his film-making debut in 1984 with the short film ''Agami'' while he was a student. Film critic Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, writing in ''Cinemaya'' in 2000, named Islam's ''Chaka'' as one of the top twelve films from Bangladesh. Filmography * ''Agami'' (1984) * ''Nouka O Jibon'' (1986) * ''Shuchona'' (1988) * ''Chaka'' (''The Wheel'', 1993) * ''Dipu Number Two'' (1996) * '' Dukhai'' (1997) * ''Brishty'' (2000) * ''Shorot 71'' (2000) * '' Durotto'' (2004) * ''Khelaghor'' (2006) * ''Vooter Bari'' (2007) * ''Priyotomeshu'' (2009) * ''Amar Bondhu Rashed'' (2011) * ''Anil Bagchir Ekdin'' (2015) * ''Ankhi O Tar Bandhura'' (2017) Awards and honours * International Critics Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tareque Masud
Tareque Masud (6 December 1956 – 13 August 2011) was a Cinema of Bangladesh, Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist. He first found success with the films ''Muktir Gaan'' (1995) and ''Matir Moina'' (2002), for which he won three international awards, including the International Critics' FIPRESCI Prize, in the Directors' Fortnight at 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The film became List of Bangladeshi submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Bangladesh's first film to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Masud died in a road accident on 13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a filming location. Masud was working on ''Kagojer Phool'' (The Paper Flower). In 2012, he posthumously received Ekushey Padak, the second highest civilian award of Bangladesh. In 2013, New York University Asian/Pacific/American Institute, and South Asia Solidarity Ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanvir Mokammel
Tanvir Mokammel (born 8 March 1955) is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and writer. He is the recipient of Ekushey Padak in 2017. He won Bangladesh National Film Awards total ten times for the films ''Nodir Naam Modhumoti'' (1995), ''Chitra Nodir Pare'' (1999) and ''Lalsalu'' (2001). He is the current director of Bangladesh Film Institute in Dhaka. Early life and education Tanvir Mokammel grew up in Khulna. His father worked as a magistrate in Narail and his mother was a teacher in a local college. He completed his master's in English literature at the University of Dhaka. Career Since he was a university student, Mokammel worked as a left-wing journalist for landless peasants in rural areas. As a filmmaker he has made six full-length features and fifteen documentaries and short films, some of which have received national and international awards. His feature films are ''"Nodir Naam Modhumoti"'' ''(The River Named Modhumati)'', ''"Chitra Nodir Pare"'' ''(Quiet Flows the River Chitra)'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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