Matir Moina has released at Kolkata West Bengal

After 42 year, today a Bangladeshi film Matir Moina has released at Kolkata West Bengal. Nandan is going has become the history after 42 year. After this long time the one of the first movie of Bangladesh. The intellectuals’ opinion that it will make the cultural relationship will be strong.

Matir Moina is that move which did not released by The Bangladesh Film Sensor Board (FSB) at 2002. But this film released the first time in London.

Indian Express reported

“The film is autobiographical in the sense that it is based on a part of my own childhood spent in a Madrassa in Bangladesh where my very strict father had sent me to study for around eight years. The memories of those times remain etched in my mind for good because the time-setting of the film and the part of my childhood depicted in it coincides with the disturbance that finally led to the Bangladeshi war of Independence following West Pakistan’s attack on Bengali Muslims led by General Yahya Khan,” informs the soft-spoken and unassuming Masud.

The director of this film Tareque Masud has expressed his childhood memory during the Independend war of Bangladesh.

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.

Bangladeshi Film: All about Matir Moina

For many years, Tareque and Catherine Masud had dreamed of making a feature film based on Tareque’s childhood experience in a madrasa (Islamic seminary) during the late 1960’s in the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

MATIR MOINA (The Clay Bird)

98 minutes, 35mm color, 2002

Directed by Tareque Masud

Produced by Catherine Masud

Screenplay: Tareque & Catherine Masud

An Audiovision/MK2 production

Achievements of Matir Moina

2002 Cannes Film Festival, FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize for Best Film

2002 Edinburgh International Film Festival

2002 Montreal International Film Festival

2002 Marrakech Film Festival (Morocco), Best Screen Play Award

2002 Cairo International Film Festival

2003 Palm Springs International Film Festival

2003 New Directors/New Films Festival

2003 Karafilm Festival, Best Film

Publish Post

DVD RELEASED in Bangladesh

UK Television Broadcast

NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE

Interview of Tareque Masud

Excerpts from interview taken in Paris in January, 2002

Film Matir Moina and the Present Situation

Before me a long revelation has been happened of the film Matir Moina. Also has written thousand of article on this film. The movie Matir Moina is directed by Tareque Masud. In the film he expressed his childhood experiences during the independent war of Bangladesh.

The official website of Matir Moina
For many years, Tareque and Catherine Masud had dreamed of making a feature film based on Tareque’s childhood experience in a madrasa (Islamic seminary) during the late 1960’s in the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). This was a very turbulent period in Bangladesh's history, when as the eastern wing of the greater Islamic state of Pakistan,

Today the film has release in the west Bengal. Dear readers you all know that the Bangladesh Film Censor Board (FCB) has refused to issue a censor certificate to the film Matir Moina. But on April 16th, 2005, the DVD of Matir Moina was officially launched and was available in stores and markets throughout the country.

Rokeya Prachy Vs Matir Moyna and Others

Tareque Masud and Kathryn Masud directed film ‘Matir Moyna’ is a real view of the independent war of Bangladesh. Rokeya Prachy plays the most important actress of that film. She also acted the film ‘Dukhai’ too. Both are famous film in Bangladeshi cinema.

If you want to read about Rokeya Prachy’s interview just click the link here

In just six years the young actor propelled into international fame, like a shooting star. Stepping into the world of cinema in 1996 with ‘Dukhai’, Rokeya Prachy got her biggest break, working with Tareque Masud in Matir Moina, the film that took Bangladesh to dizzying heights in innumerable international film festivals all over the world, including the Oscars, Cannes, Marrakech and many others. She pauses to talk with Momena Jalil about her career