The New Nation - Internet Edition

Sheikh Arif Bulbon

The premier show of the government funded full-length feature film 'Rabeya' will be screened on the fifth day of the Eid-ul-Azha on ATN Bangla.

Directed by Tanvir Mokammel, the story and the script have also been written Tanvir. Bonya Mirza, Aly Zaker, Taukir Ahmed, Arman Parvez Murad, Abul Hayat, Masum Aziz, Keramat Mawla, Chitralekha Guha, Abdul Aziz, Vaskor Bondopaddhya, Geetashri Chowdhury, Joyotika Jyoti, Uttam Guha, Rana Masud, among others, performed in the film.

Story of Rabeya:

The incident took place at the fag end of the of the liberation war in 1971 at Ibrahimpur village on the bank of river Rupsa.

A group of the Pakistani occupation forces had set up a camp in the village and they dug a bunker on the bank of the river. Two daughters of late Altaf Kazi- Rabeya and Rokeya -were staying at the house of the Peace Committee chairman Emdad Kazi. Emdad Kazi wanted that his son Tariqul marry Rabeya. Two daughters had lone brother Khaled, who had been studying in a college and later he joined the Liberation War.

At the end of war when the freedom fighters were returning to the village Ibrahimpur, suddenly when a bullet of the Pakistani occupation forces pierced through his chest bring an end to the life of Khaled. Emdad Kazi and a Pakistani captain ordered villagers not to bury the body of Khaled. They also ordered them to throw the body on the dam of the river so that villagers would be frightened seeing the body. Rabeya was asked to look after the body of his brother, but she tried to bury the body of her brother defying the order of Pakistani forces. Then she was also killed by the Pakistani occupation forces. Freedom fighters then announced her martyred.