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Feature film 'Bangla' on February 21
Cultural Correspondent
With Ekushey February (International Mother Language Day) round the corner, ATN Bangla will telecast a Bangla feature film titled Bangla on February 21 at 2.30pm. The movie is based on noted writer Ahmed Sofa's work Ongkar. Shahidul Islam Khokon is the director of the film. Popular actors like Humayun Fareedi, Mahfuz Ahmed, Shabnoor and Purnima play the central characters in the film.The film is based on mass uprising of 1969 in Bangladesh. Talukder is an affluent person and Kana Moktar is his long time assistant. In the course of time Talukder loses all his wealth. When Talukder is bed-ridden Kana Mokter comes up with a marriage proposal for the latter's mute daughter with Talukder's elder son. Though Talukder is angry at the proposal, his son agrees to the marriage. On 1969 Shaheed Asad is shot dead by the police. The masses come out to protest the inhumanity. One day the mute girl joins the masses and, in a twist to the film, begins to shout just one word --Bangla.
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Shabnoor and Mahfuz in Bangla |
