Feature film Rabeya on ATN Bangla today
Tanvir Mokammel's latest feature film "Rabeya" will be aired today at 3:15 pm on ATN Bangla. One of the three films that received grant from the Bangladesh Government in the year 2008, "Rabeya" was premiered on TV on December 13 on ATN Bangla.
The story of the film goes back to the first week of December 1971. The setting is a village named Ibrahimpur, by the river Rupsha. The village is taken over by the Pakistani military. Emdad Kazi, the most influential man of the village is assisting them as the chairman of the local 'Shanti Committee'. During a guerrilla encounter, young freedom fighter Khaled is killed. To set an example, the Pakistani Captain orders not to bury the corpse and let it rot in the open field. Rabeya, Khaled's sister and niece of Emdad Kazi, cannot bear this humiliation to his dead brother. In the middle of the night, Rabeya tries to bury the corpse on her own. She gets shot by the Razakars. Her death stirs the sleeping conscience of the villagers.
The cast includes Bannya Mirza, Aly Zaker, Tauquir Ahmed, Arman Parvez Murad, Abul Hayat, Masum Aziz, Keramat Maula, Chitralekha Guha and Jyotika Jyoti.
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