KOLKATA, Feb 11, 2021 (BSS) – The five-day 3rd Bangladesh Film
Festival-2021 that ended here on Wednesday attracted a large number of
visitors of the West Bengal of India.
The festival began on January 5 at Nandan Hall here with the
screening of the film- “Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale”, a film produced by
CRI trustees Radwan Mujib Siddiq and Nasrul Hamid, which was made on
the life of Sheikh Hasina, the incumbent Prime Minister of Bangladesh
and daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman.
Bangladesh’s Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud opened the
festival as the chief guest while Science and Technology Minister of
the West Bengal government Bratya Basu and India’s External Affairs
Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla joined the event as the guests of
honour.
Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran and noted Film
Director of India Gautam Ghosh attended the inaugural ceremony as
special guests with Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata
Towfiq Hasan in the chair.
Ministry of Information of Bangladesh with the support of Bangladesh
Deputy High Commission in Kolkata organized the festival, in which a
total of 32 Bangladeshi feature films were screened.
The films, which were screened during the five-day festival
included- ‘Jalaler Golpo’, ‘Krishnopokkho’, ‘Oggatonama’, ‘Rajadhiraj
Razzak’, ‘Under Construction’, ‘Debi , ‘Podmo Patar Jol’, ‘Abar
Boshonto’, ‘Maya: The Lost Mother’, ‘Na Dorai’, ‘Ankhi O Tar
Bandhura’, ‘Fagun Haway’, ‘Iti Tomari Dhaka’, ‘Bhuban Majhi’ and ‘Pora
Mon’.
Among the films ‘Jalaler Golpo’, ‘Krishnopokkho’, ‘Oggatonama’,
‘Rajadhiraj Razzak’, ‘Ankhi O Tar Bandhura’, ‘Fagun Haway’ and ‘Iti
Tomari Dhaka’ were produced by country’s popular production house
Impress Telefilm.
Celebrated Bangladeshi film artistes Jaya Ahsan, Ferdous Ahmed, Riaz
Ahmed, Dilara Hanif Purnima attended the function. However, India’s
eminent film artistes Srijit Mukherjee, Anirban Bhattacharja and
Prosenjeet Chattapadhya, among others, were present at the inaugural
function.