‘Jalaler Golpo’ wins awards in SAARC film festival

Abu Shahed Emon's critically acclaimed feature film “Jalaler Golpo” (Jalal's Story) keeps on bringing the prize, once again bagging two more international awards at the SAARC International Film Festival held in Sri Lanka.

Barkat Hossain Palash won the Best Cinematographer award while the Chirkut band received the award for best original score on Monday.

The festival is being held from June 1-6 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

“Jalaler Golpo” won a handful of awards at a number of international film festivals last year including the the prize for best work by a debutant director at Kerala International Film Festival in India last December.

Last year, the film also received the award for best debutant director's film at the Jaipur International Film Festival in February 2015 and the best feature film in Avanca International Film Festival in Portugal in July the same year.