Film FAGUN HAWAY

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Film” FAGUN HAWAY”
Langage- Bangla
Cast-Yashpal Sharma,,Nusrat Imroz Tisha, Siam Ahmed etc of Bangladesh

The famous director of Bangladesh Mr.Tauquir Ahamad’ FILM  “FAGUN HAWAY” was the scintillating attraction in the 4th Raipur International Film Festival( 10—14 Feb,2020).

The film maker Mr. Tauquir Ahmad has infused History into an art form of cinema and that’s why it is known as SEVENTH ART AND TENTH MUSE. The film” Fagun Haway” (The spring wind)by its name gives a soothing and pleasant romance. But this film is dabbling with humor into the ocean of a small period of history of East Pakistan ( East Bangladesh) that is the chaos period between the ruler of Pakistan and the  common people of Bangladesh over the conflict of language “ Urdu only” over the 56 % population of Pakistan and that triggers the stir of liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 after lacs of Bengali people were massacred by language-fanatic of Pakistan ruler.

Bangladesh is the first country in the world, which has evolved on its mother language “ Bangla”Bangaladesh celebrates 21 Februry as Languga Martyr’s Day because young students of Bangladesh, cutting across the religions sacrificed their lives for their mother language.

 UNESCO has dubbed 21 February as” International Mother Language Day” and it celebrates it.
The incident is bloodbath between the student, gentry and Pakistan’s barbarous ruler was pathetic and horrified before the director Mr.Tauquir Ahmed.The film could have been tragic but he has taken the film to a hilarious romantic level. However, rambling of mind of the director has oozed out the complete package of a satirical film that encompasses the love .He has proved it that Bangla language can be the language of love and business.

The director Mr.Taukuir had adapted the film from a novel “ Bou Kotha Kou” written by Tito Rahman. The director has set the film locations on  Khulna’s Chandranagar” in Bagladesh. The film’s subject has two tracks with the similar characters. One track is popular language struggle that is borne out in 1952 in East Bangladesh of Pakistan and second track is  love that flow the spring wind.

Jamshed Ali khan has been deputed as Police officer in Chandranagar as a punishment. While coming to Chandranagar, he goes mad to listen to Bangli.He does not listen to a single word of Urdu that is spoken in Eastern Pakistan. His Urdu is not the language of communication. Police Officer Jamshed  is a language- chauvinist. While on rowing across the river “PADMA”, he slaps the Bowl singer, singing song on Ektara in Bangla. The boat has young girl Dipti with her doctor grandfather and Nasir, a student in Dhaka University were rowing to other bank of river where they live. They are the students in Dhaka. They have spent their vacation in the village. Nasir registers his protest as to why, he hit the Bowl singer. Jamshed scolds him too, because he speaks to him in his mother tongue. After the scuffle, Dipti takes notice of him who fights for Bengali language. The four eyes of loving humans exchange a lot.

Police officer Jamshed Ali Khan is so cynical that he sets up  an Urdu class by managing an Urdu Teacher at  his Police station and starts teaching Urdu to the Bengali Police posted there and he drags some locals to learn Urdu and speak it. He teaches a parrot Urdu, who speaks Bengali only. Jamshed’s madness grows and he writes a letter to  Prime Minister Jinna to make Urdu a national language of Pakistan. He hates Bengal’s drooling food “Machcho-Bhat”( Fish-rice) and orders his subordinate police to arrange Chicken and Mutton only. He construct the wooden cage for cocks and hens. He selects four healthy cocks and names them as Jinnah, Liyakat Ali Khan, Nizammuddin and he strictly instructs the subordinates to look after these cocks who are his pride and they will not be throated as food. Nasir suffers much when the same Bawl music singer leaves for India.

Jamshed’ cynicism spreads to the dwellers of Chandrapur, particularly to the youths and they get infuriated with forceful teaching of Urdu and implementation of Urdu-only as a National Language. Few of the youths get engaged in rehearsal of a Bengali Play to utilize their vacation. Dipti, Nasir, son of a businessman and others and few of them are engaged to teach a series of lessons to Police officer Jamshed Ali Khan. This is the time of December 1951 and the struggle of language against Pakistani rulers spread across the Eastern Bangaldesh.

The location of the film is a simile of entire East Bengal. The youths of Chandrapur steal the metaphorized cocks in the night and they organize party and eat them. The youths drink their four bottles of alcohol and urinate them. Jamshed drinks that, cracks the laugh and this visual remembers the Charlie Chaplin’s acting. Chaarlie says, if the cruel and powerful person comes into a panic state, audiences connect to them through the “Process of Generalization of Art”. The young boys fears Jamshed by making a false ghost in night. Jamshed inflicts a series of atrocities on people of  Chandrapur by jailing the youths, raping the young dumb girl who cleans his house. When he finds, the maid-servant is dumb, he is strangely happy and he raps her without the protest in Bengali.

The dumb girl is metaphorically used as a character in the film that Pakistan ruler forcibly suffocates the huge Bengali Population to impose Urdu that is the language of western Pakistan and India. The Bengali populace has been seeking Bangala as their official language.
Jamshed bans the Bengali play that is to be staged. Dipti’s grandfather forces Dipti to leave the country. Nasir is upset. The huge demonstration led by young Nasir inspires the police to revolt against Police officer Jamshed Ali Khan. It is observed. Five young students were gunned down on 21 February,1952 and it triggers the mass movement against Pakistan rulers gradually.This language movement is the genesis of liberation of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971.

Indian Film actor Yashpal Sharma has profoundly crafted the role of Police officer Jamshed Ali Khan. His cynicism holds the screen. Bangladesh Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) had nominated for the Best International Feature Film category at the 92nd Academy Awards.

 

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4th  RIFF (4th Raipur International Film Festival.

FILM FESTIVAL is the venue of interaction of fictional character on screen and physical characters in audience. 4th Raipur International Film FESTIVAL ( 10—14 Feb2029) had been so enthralling that has amazed me much a part from Film Festival of being organized in metro cities where interaction is much difficult.

However, The Raipur Film fest seems to be local but it was global, showcasing films from Bangladesh, Indo-Argentinian Films and many indigenous films as well as short films .
 I salute two persona like Mr.Subhash
Mishra and Film critique Ajit Rai who organized the entire film festival in a splendid way.

Many short films and documentary films had been so fascinating that were informative as well as a matchless change for the audiences.

In five days of film festival, some of the master classes of film making were delivered by directors and few persona Mr. Tripurari Sharan on the script of the film.His class was full of new things about scripting. He is the senior IAS officer ,posted as chief principal secretary of Bihar Government. Before, he was director of Film and Telivision Institute of India, Pune.He enlivened FTII again after long closure.He had introduced Rajkumar Rao for the first time in his directorial film. Later on ,Mr.Tripurari Sharan was made director –general of Doordarshan. He is very dynamic to trigger the bullet like  examples from the world cinema to support his analysis about the script and the filming.

The great script writer Mr.Ashok Mishra came to film festival from Mumbai. He  had been scripting the films of great film maker Mr.Shyam Benegal and many more feathers in his cap will be surprising the people like scripting “BHARAT EK KHOJ” for TV serials. I noticed him mingling with aspiring writers, directors and  and actors and had few words on the film” RAGDESH” directed by Mr.Tigmanshu Dhulia who also participated in the long discussion after screening his film. “Ragdesh” must go to people of India to see Netajee Subhash Chandra Bose and his amicable relation with Gandhi jee, Nehru jee and other stalwarts of British India. 


Industrialist producer Mr.Sumit Agrawal along with director Nandlal Nayak had showcased a mind-blowing and mindboggling film “Dhoom Kudiya”that presents the plight of tribes of Jharkhand. Film “Dhoom Kudiya” reveals the creeping poverty of tribe people and human-trafficking to big cities and away from the country. The specially missing of girls from Jharkhand is a horrifying chain from the Jharkhand to the various big cities where young girls are exploited in various ways and they never come back. Screening the film had darkened the auditorium much denser and had caused a storm of loneliness that does not allow or compel to participate in question-answer session although few of the cine-lovers had succeeded to wipe the encroaching silence.

The actor YASHPAL SHARMA’s acting in film “ Faguni Hawayen”had provided a new view to audience about the forcible
imposition of language on huge people who do not know the language and later on, its culmination was the emergence of new country BANGALADESH in 1971 after huge flow of blood. The film is a national elegy.

The festival began with the screening Indo-Argentina film” THINKING OF HIM “directed by Pablo Cesar and co-produced by Suraj Kuumar. I am associate director of this film. The film got plenty of accolades and admirations and positive discussion enthralled the cine-lovers in auditorium of Sanskriti Bhavan, Raipur.

The Victor Bannergee as Tagore and Eleonora Wexler as Victoria Ocampo had created a new horizon of love through their intellects, poetry, Painting. The education of   Shanti Niketan oozes out love of humanism. Tagore’s Humanism flows beyond the boundary of nation. The love between Tagore and Victoria Ocampo is awesome and sublimated and such a love is rare in the world. I am too delighted to be part of the film during pre-production and production phase.

Our another film as a researcher “ The Holy Cow” directed by Suraj Kumar reveals the bloody lynching of religious minority in the name of cow to polarize the country for the sake of catching a political power. This documentary cautions the pluralistic society to co-exist amicably instead of making society a fanatic and polarized society.

A part from these films, the young director Kamakhya Narayan Singh”s film “BHOR”  reflects the hope that will be rectifying the mistakes of society and government for betterment in a gradual way. The film hovers around the toilet and woman’s respectibility. A very sensitive movie that surpasses the film TOILET-EK PREMKATHA starrer Akashy Kumar that is the member of Rs100crores club.
The film” I PAD” directed by Amit Rai is far better film that Akshay starrer film “ PADMAN”. Producer Ketan Maru has embraced this film to release in theatre as well as on Digital platform. Amit Rai has revealed that in 2013,the film “I PAD” was screened in IFFI (International Film Festival of India,Goa) and the concept was plagiarized to make film “PADMAN” with great hero Akshay Kumar. This is the blackship in the Bollywood and it should be prevented so that the meaning full film and Film makers will emerge.
Film Maker Pawan Kumar Sharma’s film “Van Rakshak” starrer Yashpal Sharma hovers around the protection of jungle, located in Himachal Pradesh. Pawan’s film reflects pain and pathos of human civilization that is suffering from the paucity of water but horrendous situation is ahead that civilization will not find water and air. Very serious issue of global human has been raised.
London based film maker Avtar  Bhogal’s film “Honour  Killing” reveals the fanatic religious identity in love affair exists even in Indian Diaspora after long stay in London. Prem Chopra, Glshan Grover and Pakistani popular actor Javed Sheikh have marvelously acted in the film.
Film maker Dipankar Prakash’s short movie “ MOSO” gives shock over doubt on woman.Yashpal Sharma and Shweta Padda both have profoundly oozed out their acting capabilities.
Few short films have also churned the neurons of viewers.
4th RIFF is a global film showcase with interactions of many characters like fictional, non-fictional. The participants have observed many visual novels that narrate the tales of layers of a nation and those of various nations like Bangaladesh, London,Pakistan,Argentina, Japan,Germany,Bhutan,Verma,Itly.
 4th RIFF, Raipur had been splendidly successful film festival and credit goes to Mr.Subhash Mishra,Mr.Ajit Rai and team who have rendered the platform of Chhatisgarh film makers to show their talents and to introduce them with experienced Film Makers of the world.
Congratulations to the success of 4th RIFF and I wish them to celebrate the 5th RIFF grandly in advance.