The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

Adviser for Education and Commerce Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman on Saturday emphasized the need for taking concerted efforts to make the country's cultural institutions stronger side by side with the economy to attain a robust national development.

He said, the nation that is not careful about their own heritage, cannot reach to a prestigious level.

The adviser said this while speaking at a reunion, discussion and film show at the auditorium of the National Museum organized by Bangladesh Film Archives (BFA) as the chief guest.

The function was organized in observance of completion of three decades of BFA.

With Information Secretary Jamil Osman in the chair, the function was addressed, among others, by eminent film personality Subhash Dutta, filmmaker Tarek Masud, director general of BFA Dr M Jahangir Hossain.

Terming BFA as an important organization for preserving the country's cultural pieces, Dr Hossian Zillur Rahman said apart from collecting and preserving the cultural elements, the institution has also been able to create peoples' interest about films by organizing training programmes.

He laid stress on the need of bringing institutional reforms at all levels of the cultural organizations including their organizational structures and said time befitting ideas should be incorporated and experts concerned should be appointed to those institutions.

He also underscored the need for taking proper care of the organizations which project the national identity and said the legal structure of the film archive should be strengthen and make time befitting.

Despite constraints of our resources, desired outcome should be ensured through proper utilization of these resources, Dr Hossain Zillur said.

He said all have to work together from their respective place and position in order to brighten the country's image. He also stressed the need for bringing changes in the attitude at all spheres of the society.

Speaking on the occasion, Jamil Osman said the BFA is performing as the milestone of our history and heritage by colleting and preserving both local and international films.

He said a total of 2,169 local and international films have so far been preserved in the BFA. The institution should pay more attention to collect rare works, he said adding the rare films should be preserved through computerization.

Referring to various activities of the government in the field of films, he said the government is working to build the BFA as a centre of mingling of film culture.

The making of healthy films has returned once again in the country through active participation of all concerned including radio, television, FDC and BFA, he added.