Bangla film Matir Moina Ignored at Kolkata

As the first Bangladeshis film Matir Moina competed for the Oscar. This time it achieved the Best Foreign Film of 2002. After 1965, Matir Moina is the first film which is released in Kolkata.

Times Internet reported:

While members of the selection committee headed by Chidananda Dasgupta “couldn’t remember” Matir Moina, they recommended Adhiar, a film on share croppers by Saidul Alam Tutul. Set against the economic depression following WW II, the Bengal famine and the pre-Partition riots of the ‘40s, it unfolds the Bengal Association of Provincial Peasants’ movement to wrest 2/3 share for farmers instead of the half they shared with landlords. This Communist-supported Tebhaga Andolan gave birth to artist Somenath Hore’s renowned Tebhaga’s Diary.

Someone thinking the it will increase the cultural relationship strong and someone thinking if Bangladeshi cinema release in west Bengal, it will destroy the image of Tallywood film.