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Monday, March 29, 2021

My Bicycle (2015): Indigenous Life Under the Advent of Modernity

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"My Bicycle" (Mor Thengari) is the first feature film made in Chakma language, a language which is used by a large indigenous grou...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

The 20 Best Post-Liberation (1972-2000) Films from Bangladesh

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  Asad and Subarna in the film Ghuddi (1980) Bangladesh started producing film regularly since mid-1950s when it was part of Pakistan. Due ...
Friday, September 18, 2020

A Brief and Handy History of Bangladesh Cinema

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This book is a snapshot of the first hundred and twenty years or so of cinema in Bangladesh. The shot is a panoramic one. It would require f...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

20 Great Bangladeshi Films of the 21st Century

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After the advent of new technologies such as satellite TV, CD/DVD in 1990s and Internet streaming in 2000s, Bangladesh’s mainstream in...
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Bamboo Stories: Poetic and Humane

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Berlin based director  Shaheen Dill-Riaz 's latest documentary 'Bamboo Stories' (বাঁশ বৈভব) is an ethnography of the peopl...
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Saturday, May 2, 2020

Extraction: A White Man’s Rescue Mission in a Filthy South Asian City

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At last Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh became the subject matter of a Hollywood action movie. After visiting a lot of African count...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Bangladeshi Films: Through the Lens of Professor Fahmidul Haq

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[ Raihana Sayeeda Kamal talks to Dr Fahmidul Haq to know the ins and outs of Bangladeshi films. Dr Fahmidul Haq is a professor of Mass...
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Saturday, January 28, 2017

The Ant Story: Modern Man’s Descent into Madness

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Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s The Ant Story explores the issue of contemporary Bangladeshi sexuality from a psychoanalytical perspec...

Under Construction: A Document of Time and Space Under Construction

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Under Construction is a film about women made by women. It is also a critique of contemporary Bangladeshi society in two ways. First,...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Policy Supports, Doesn't Control

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THE government published a gazette recently on the National Broadcast Policy-2014 despite widespread criticism. The criticism started afte...
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Fahmidul Haq
Currently, I am a visiting professor at Bard College, New York where I teach Film and Media. I also served at Notre Dame University, USA for two years. I taught Mass Communication and Journalism at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh for nearly two decades. Cinema Studies, New Media and Political Economy of Media are my academic area of interests. I have written and edited several books both in English and Bengali. I did my PhD research in Cinema Studies. E-mail: fahmidul.haq@gmail.com.
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