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CANNES SPECIAL / Roadmap to Festival De Cannes
With the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival knocking on the door, we give you a rundown of what to look out for on this international cinema harbor.
"CELEBRATING LIFE" FILMMAKING WORKSHOP 2019
Bangladesh is a beautiful land brimming with talented individuals in many different fields. Despite the celebrations involving music, dance and culture in Bangladesh, the unsung talents in the fields of film, photography and lyric-writing seldom receive the proper platform to showcase their potential.
Stars come together at Pran Premium Ghee-Anandadhara / PITHA UTSHAB
Pran Premium Ghee -Anandadhara Pitha Fest is going on at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel Dhaka. IGLOO and Prime Bank Limited are the co-sponsors for the event.
Walkthrough of Celebrating Life 2018
“Celebrating Life 2018” is a premier competition manifesting diversified submission of photographs, films and lyrics by the youth. Every year before the gala event
BAMBA Reborn: Loud and Clear!
Bangladesh Musical Bands Association (BAMBA) is back with a bang, this time offering the band music lovers a grand collaboration project of 24 famous bands of the country.
Stars Come Together at Tuhin Hossain's Photo Exhibition
Photographer Tuhin Hossain recently held a Celebrity Photo Exhibition at Drik Gallery on 29th and 30th June. Tuhin Hossain is a well known corporate and fashion photographer, and has been taking photos of well known celebrities for the last 20 years.
Shurer Dhara: A torchbearer of Tagore
Shurer Dhara started its journey 25 years ago on Pahela Baishakh, with a handful of students in the living room of a house in Lalmatia of Dhaka. Inspired by the encouragement of prominent Tagore artist and “Guru” Kanika Bandyopadhyay, Rezwana Choudhury Bannya set up the esteemed music school in 1992 with the aim to promote the ideals of Rabindranath Tagore through his songs. Ever since, the music school has played a significant role in spreading the joy and underlying messages of Tagore songs in our country.
‘Celebrating Life’ Back Again!
The premier talent hunt for photography, lyrics and film in Bangladesh, Celebrating Life, is returning once again for its 11th iteration. The official theme launch event took place last Tuesday, 17th April, where this year's theme was
Stars Framed in the Celebrating Life Photo-book Launch
Many of Bangladesh's top-tier media personalities were spotted at the Daily Star Centre for Celebrating Life's biennial Photo-book launch. Celebrating Life is The Daily Star and Standard Chartered Bank's joint initiative to find and crown the country's finest photographers, lyricists and filmmakers. The photo-book launch took place on 16th April, 2018. This event takes place every two years, and consists of the best photographs (winning entries and exhibits) from the two iterations of Celebrating Life that take place during this time period.
48th Independence Day Observed
26th March marked our country's 48th Independence Day. Recently, Bangladesh has reached the status of a middle-income country. To celebrate this momentous pair of achievements, the Ministry of Planning of Bangladesh
The Shape of Oscars 2018!
The Academy Awards, or better known as The Oscars, is undoubtedly the most coveted and revered award ceremonies of Hollywood. The 90th iteration of the Academy Awards, held last Sunday 4th March 2018, showed as much as drama and flair as one would expect from such a grand celebration; however, in its entirety, this year's Oscars is being claimed as “one of the most predictable Oscars yet”!
SAG Awards 2018: A Prelude to Oscar Results?
The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles was star-stricken as Three Billboards Outside Ebbing won a whopping three trophies in the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2018.
Studior Laal Deyaalay - A Talk Show by Aneela Haque
The journey of Studior Laal Deyaalay started with Faridur Reza Sagar, Managing Director of Channel i, after he asked Aneela Haque to conceptualize a new show for Channel i with her creative insight.
The Silk Road Film Festival and Why You Should Care
To participate in the festival I, along with my colleagues, were invited to Fuzhou, the capital of southeastern China's Fujian province, which is a sprawling industrial and transportation hub. We flew to Fuzhou before the festival.
Bangladeshi Performers in Dhaka International Folk Fest 2017
Bangladeshi Performers in Dhaka International Folk Fest 2017
RASTAK
Rastak is an ensemble for contemporary Persian Folk music which was formed as an experimental music group in 1997. The group seeks to collect, record and interpret traditional Persian folk music for the global audience. This time, they are here in Bangladesh to attend the Dhaka International Folk Fest 2017.
Basudeb Das Baul
I started singing folk songs when I was thirteen years old. I grew up in a village twenty five kilometers away from Santiniketan.
Nooran Sisters
The Nooran Sisters- Sultana and Jyoti Nooran are a Sufi duo, hailing from the Sham Chaurasia gharana of music. They are renowned for their outstanding work done in Coke Studio and various other platforms.
