''Din–The Day'' is a 2022
Bangladeshi
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 ...
–
Iranian
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* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
joint produced
action film
Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life ...
directed by
Morteza Atashzamzam
Morteza Atashzamzam is an Iranian film director and producer who was born in 1977 in Isfahan, Iran
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian E ...
and produced by
Ananta Jalil
M. A. Jalil (known as AJ) is a Bangladeshi businessman, actor, director and producer. He started his professional career as a businessman in 1999, while he encashed his meme fame and began his film career with '' Khoj: The Search'' in 2010. Jali ...
under his production banner
Monsoon Films. The film features
Ananta Jalil
M. A. Jalil (known as AJ) is a Bangladeshi businessman, actor, director and producer. He started his professional career as a businessman in 1999, while he encashed his meme fame and began his film career with '' Khoj: The Search'' in 2010. Jali ...
and
Afiea Nusrat Barsha in lead roles.
Synopsis
A
Swat
In the United States, a SWAT team (special weapons and tactics, originally special weapons assault team) is a police tactical unit that uses specialized or military equipment and tactics. Although they were first created in the 1960s to ...
agent sent for a mission to destroy an international drug chain and terrorists.
Cast
*
Ananta Jalil
M. A. Jalil (known as AJ) is a Bangladeshi businessman, actor, director and producer. He started his professional career as a businessman in 1999, while he encashed his meme fame and began his film career with '' Khoj: The Search'' in 2010. Jali ...
as AJ The SWAT officer
*
Barsha
* Sumon Farukh
*
Misha Sawdagor
Shahid Hasan (born 4 January 1966), known by professionally as Misha Sawdagor, is a Bangladeshi film actor known for playing villains. As of 2020, he has performed in more than 700 films. He won Bangladesh National Film Awards 3 times for his ...
as a Police commissioner
* Adem Arslan
* Saner Pakoglu
Production
In 2018, a production team from Iran made a documentary film about
Rohingya genocide
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the Burmese military. The genocide has consisted of two phases to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 ...
titled ''Buddha's Shame'', directed by
Morteza Atashzamzam
Morteza Atashzamzam is an Iranian film director and producer who was born in 1977 in Isfahan, Iran
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian E ...
. After watching Ananta's films, the Iranian ambassador to Bangladesh submitted a report about him to the Iranian government. He then put the production team in touch with Ananta Jalil. Then Jalil was invited to Iran by the Iranian government. On June 18, 2018, Ananta met with Alireza Tabesh of the Farabi Cinema Foundation to discuss the concept of the film. Ananta Jalil said he wanted to make a film that would highlight the real Islam. Alireza Tabesh then said that he was willing to produce the film but that the script of the film should be satisfactory to them.
In October 18 of the same year, a film related agreement was signed. It is known that Morteza Atashzamzam jointly produced the film with
Monsoon Film. The shooting of the film started on 27 February 2019. Ananta Jalil was injured while shooting in
Herat
Herāt (; Persian: ) is an oasis city and the third-largest city of Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (''Selseleh-ye Safēd ...
, in March, and the shooting was postponed for at least two weeks.
Its shooting was postponed again in July 2020 due to the
COVID-19 epidemic
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. Four months later, the shooting resumed on October 30. The shooting ended on 18 November. The film was shot on
8K camera. The production team used
Dolby Atmos 7.1 surround sound
7.1 surround sound is the common name for an eight-channel surround audio system commonly used in home theatre configurations. It adds two additional speakers to the more conventional six-channel (5.1) audio configuration. As with 5.1 surround sou ...
technology. It has been shot in
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
,
Iran
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,
Turkey
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and
Morocco
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.
Marketing
The first trailer of the film was released on
YouTube
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on March 15, 2020. The songs of the film were released on YouTube on March 4, 2022. The final official trailer of the film was uploaded on YouTube on June 21, 2022. Then, as part of marketing, Ananta Jalil and Barsha went to
Teacher-Student Centre, University of Dhaka on June 24 to show another trailer to students.
Music
Controversies
In August,
Morteza Atashzamzam
Morteza Atashzamzam is an Iranian film director and producer who was born in 1977 in Isfahan, Iran
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian E ...
accused Ananta Jalil of violating the terms and conditions of the film. Ananta Jalil made the film in his own way without discussing with the director. As a result, the film has turned into a low-quality film, the director said. Morteza also requested Ananta to drop the names of Iranians from the list of names of the film's production team due to non-compliance with the terms of the contract, but Ananta refused the request. Morteza filed a case against Ananta in a court in
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
, and said he would file a case in Bangladesh as well. Ananta rejected the director's statement. He termed his allegation as part of a conspiracy against him.
Ananta Jalil claimed that it was produced on an estimated budget of ৳100 crore, that makes it the most expensive Bangladeshi film at the time of its release. But later Morteza Atashzamzam, co-producer of the flim, published the film related agreement via
Instagram
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which states that it's actual budget was ৳4 core. As per the contract, Ananta was supposed to pay the entire budget, but he paid only 4.8 percent of the total amount.
After the release of the director's contract, when Entertainment reporter of ''
Prothom Alo
''The Daily Prothom Alo'' ( bn, প্রথম আলো) is a daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in the Bengali language. It is the largest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh. According to National Media Survey 2018, conducte ...
'' asked Ananta about this, he claimed that the contract was edited, but he refrained from giving any direct answer regarding the film's budget.
Release
The film was initially slated for release in December 2019.
Later, the owner of Monsoon Films had planned to release the film on
Eid-ul-Azha
Eid al-Adha () is the second and the larger of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam (the other being Eid al-Fitr). It honours the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son Ismail (Ishmael) as an act of obedience to Allah's comm ...
in 2021. It is scheduled to be released in 80 countries. The release date of the film was later fixed for December 24, 2021, but it was postponed due to
COVID-19 pandemic
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. On 5 June 2022, the film got censor certificate in Bangladesh. ''Din: The Day'' was announced to be released on Eid-ul-Azha 2022.
Reception
The film mostly received negative reviews from audience. Actress Barsha said “Din: The Day' might be our last film” due to so much criticism and trolls over on social media.
Columnist Ahsan Kabir of ''
Bdnews24.com
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History
In 2005, the company launched initially as the country's first exclusively web-based news agency, and was known as BDNEWS. The website bdnews24.com developed b ...
'' referred to the film as "a big budget trolled movie". He criticized Jalil and Barsha's poor acting and the story of the film as well as Ananta's wrongly spelled dialogue delivery in English. Called the film as "One of the greatest comedies of all time in Bengali Cinema", Jawad Saif from ''The Business Standard'' criticised it in his film review and referred to it a film with an unseen story. Columnist Asrar Chowdhury of ''
The Daily Star'' thinks that the film was made like
James Bond films
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but families can enjoy it unlike that film. Journalist
Munni Saha praised the film in her article and compared its filmmaking with films of
Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema, also known as Kollywood is a part of Indian Cinema; primarily engaged in production of motion pictures in the Tamil language. Based out of the Kodambakkam neighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, it is popularly called ''Kollywood' ...
.
Misha Sawdagor
Shahid Hasan (born 4 January 1966), known by professionally as Misha Sawdagor, is a Bangladeshi film actor known for playing villains. As of 2020, he has performed in more than 700 films. He won Bangladesh National Film Awards 3 times for his ...
, who plays the police commissioner in the film, said about the film that it did not contribute to the
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 Bangla ...
because the performers here are not professionals but amateurs.
References
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