“Khacha” is Bangladesh's entry to the Oscars
The Oscar Bangladesh Committee has selected Akram Khan-helmed film “Khacha” as Bangladesh's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. A press conference was arranged at a hotel in the capital yesterday (September 28) to make the announcement.
Present at the press conference were Committee Chairperson Habibur Rahman Khan, Channel i Managing Director Faridur Reza Sagar, “Khacha” director Akram Khan, actor Azad Abul Kalam and others.
What is rather shocking, however, is that “Khacha” and the Jahangir Alam Sumon-directed “Shonabondhu” were the only two film submissions to the committee this year.
The welcome address was delivered by Habibur Rahman Khan, who stated, “I have faith that one day a Bangladeshi film will be on the stage of the Academy Awards, collecting the award.”
“'Khacha' is a wonderful, heart-wrenching story, and I hope it has a marked presence at the awards ceremony,” Faridur Reza Sagar added.
Director Akram Khan expressed his gratitude towards his filming unit for this honourary selection, saying “It gives me great joy to just participate in this grand event, and I would not be able to do it without my talented cast and crew.”
National Film Grant-awardee “Khacha”, that stars Mamunur Rashid, Azad Abul Kalam and Jaya Ahsan in the central roles, chronicles the plight of a Hindu family trying to migrate to India after the Indian Parition of 1947. The screenplay was jointly written by Akram Khan and Azad Abul Kalam based on a short story of the same title by Hasan Azizul Haque.
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