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Film: Muharrat of Brishtir Din held

MD of BFDC, producer and performers at the muharrat
of Brishtir Din. Photo: Sharif Khan

Apurbo and Shoshi, hero and heroine of Brishtir Din.
Photo: Sharif Khan

Sheikh Arif Bulbon

Muharrat of film Brishtir Din under the banner of Manan Chalachitra was held at Zahir Raihan Auditorium of Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) on Thursday.

Eminent film director Morshedul Islam will give direction of the film, while script was written by Barkat Ullah Maruf.

ANM Badrul Amin, Managing Director of BFDC, was present as chief guest at the muharrat of the film.

Film makers Abu Sayeed and Giasuddin Selim, Apurba, hero of the film, Shoshi, heroine of the film, among others, were present on the occasion.

It is mentioned that by this film will be debut movie of model cum actor Apurbo.

Morshedul Islam said, "The film will be a story of middle class family where there will be various problems in the society. Besides, family bondage will be portrait in the movie, which will give the audience a true picture of the middle class family in the urban life. Shooting of the film will start on August 3. I hope it will attract the audience and give them something new."

Ahmed Rubel will perform as guest character in the film. The film will be made in HD (High Definition) format. Then it will be transferred into 35mm, he said.

ANM Badrul Amin, MD of BFDC, said, "We are fighting against obscene-based movies. I hope in one hand Brishtir Din will be a successful movie, on the other hand it will a full-fledged social movie that will touch the hearts of the viewers."

The story of the film has been taken from the novel of Mainul Ahsan Saber. Emon Saha is in music direction and AR Swapan in camera.

Starring: Apurbo (Aupi), Shoshi (Anushka), Kalyan (Mintu), Wahida Mallik Jolly (mother of Anushka), Joyonta Chattapaddhya (father of Anushka), Saima (Lopamudra), Fahad (Soummo), Komol Ghosh (father of Aupi), Sabita Banerjee (mother of Aupi), Monisha (Lekha), Avik (Mofi), Ahmed Rubel (Robin bhai), Ratul (terrorist Jahangir), Pial (Rimon), Jahangir Khan (President of shop-owners), Kaderi (Mr Siddique), Sazid, among others, will perform in Brishtir Din.

Story of Brishtir Din:

A residential colony in Dhaka city. Some government officials lived living there. Anushka, Aupi, Mintu, Raka and others were living in different buildings of the colony.

Outside environment of colony was not good. Most of the time girls of the colony felt insecure while going to schools and colleges.

For this reason, Anushka was anger on boys of the colony as why they did not protest this matter. Sometimes Aupi wanted to protest against the terrorists.

But due to middle class sentiment he did not fight with them. Once Aupi started protested against their (terrorists) activities when his friend and a girl of the colony were repressed by them. Most of them were weak on Anushka, Aupi was same to her. The story went on with realities.

TV Watch: Rong on Channel I

Mosharraf Karim and Immi in telefilm 'Rong'

Entertainment Desk

Telefilm 'Rong' written and directed by Ahmed Enamul Azim was aired on Channel i yesterday.

The story of the film revolved around a bunch of youngsters. Mosharraf Karim, Immi, Shoeb, Sohel Khan and Pran Roy play the lead roles in the telefilm.

Story of Rong:

Riaz and Lipu are students of Dhaka University. Shentu is a roommate of Riaz. Though Shentu is older, his attitude towards Riaz is friendly. Abanti, girlfriend of Asif, is a student of Sylhet Medical College. Naifsa was infatuated with Asif and often spoke to him over the phone. On the Friendship Day, Nafisa sent a gift card to Asif. To response Asif decided to send a gift card to Nafisa. But the card meant to go to Nafisa, reached to Abanti.

Music: Sonu Nigam to perform in Dhaka on Aug 7

Indian singer Sonu Nigam

Entertainment Desk

Indian superstar singer Sonu Nigam will perform at 8:00pm at the Bang-ladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka on August 7.

Fire Works Events and Interspeed Activation will jointly organise the function.

According to the organisers, they have taken all necessary steps including government permission regarding to the event.

Tickets will be available at all the outlets of Etcetera from August 1.

Event: Seminar on 39th anniversary of landing on moon held

Staff Reporter

A seminar on the 39th anniversary of landing on the moon by Apollo-11 organised by Bangladesh Astronomical Society (BAS) at the Auditorium of Foundation for Research on Educational Planning and Development (FREPD) at Nilkhet in the city recently.

On July 20, 1969 the US astronaut Neil Armstrong, Commander of NASA's Apollo-11 Lunar Mission, had stepped down on the surface of moon as the first man of the world at 2:17am Bangladesh time and made a history for the mankind by landing on an object beyond the earth. Astronaut Edwin Aldrin followed him within a few minutes and they stayed about 22 kilograms. In the seminar, FR Sarkar, General Secretary of BAS and the first zero gravity flyer of Bangladesh has demonstrated an Apollo-11 model with audio and separation system similar to the real Saturn-V rocket which was used in Apollo mission.

Students were amazed and obtained a clear concept about a space mission through the demonstration. Dr AR Khan, President of BAS and former president of the Department of Applied Physics of Dhaka University, Dr AKM Aminul Haque, Vice President of BAS and former vice chancellor of Bangladesh Agriculture University, Dr KM Sirajul Islam, Vice President of the Society and former director of the National Museum, Dr Mobarak Ali Akand, Treasurer of the Society and former chairman of Comilla Education Board, among others, spoke at the seminar. Commemorating the historical space event on its 39th anniversary, a discussion meeting, power point presentation and video show were screened in the seminar.

Bollywood: I snatch my friends’ cell phonest

Prachi Desai

SantaBanta.com

Bubbly actress Prachi Desai is looking forward to the release of Rock On for more reasons than one. While the chirpy T.V. actress will be making her Bollywood debut with this film, she will also be making her singing debut in Rock On.

When we called up Prachi to confirm the news, she seemed all excited. "Yaaa…it's true that I have sung for a song in Rock On. In fact since yesterday, everyone has been asking me about this. It seems to have become big news already", laughs the chirpy actress.

We asked her, how did this all happen and Prachi indeed had quite a funny story to narrate, "One fine day when I was shooting for Kasamh Se, I got a call from Abhishek asking me to come to a studio.

I thought it might just be for a script reading session or discussing something about my role in the film. When I reached the venue, it was a music-recording studio and I wondered if I have come to the wrong place.

I just went in and I was made to listen to a song. The next thing I knew was that, Abhishek wanted to me to sing a few lines in the song. Although I was told that my character might have to sing a few lines for the film, I didn't know it would happen so soon.

I am not a trained singer; however, I must say that things went pretty well and I could finish my part in a matter of few minutes"

So how come her name doesn't feature in the list of singers on the Audio CD? "See, the song which I have sung is not there in the audio CD. Its not a full song, hence doesn't feature in the CD. However, the song will be there in the film"

The songs of Rock On have indeed caught on big time, especially among the youth. So which is Prachi's favorite number from the film?

"Since it's my first film, I am really crazy about all the songs of Rock On. I am only listening to the songs of Rock On in my car. What's more, I even snatch some of my friends' cell phones and put Rock On as their caller tune.