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Mukh O Mukhosh
''Mukh O Mukhosh'' ( bn, মুখ ও মুখোশ, translation='The Face and the Mask', italic=yes) was the first Bengali-language feature film to be made in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). It was produced by Iqbal Films and directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan. The film was released in East Pakistan on 3 August 1956. It was released in Dhaka, Chittagong, Narayanganj, and Khulna. The film was a great success as viewers thronged to watch the first film to be made in the region. It earned a total of during its initial run. Background Abdul Jabbar Khan started working on the film in 1953. At that time, the film industry in erstwhile East Pakistan was virtually non-existent, and local film theatres screened mostly Urdu films from Lahore, Hindi films from Mumbai, and Bengal films from Kolkata. To establish the film making infrastructures, a meeting was held in 1953 where F. Dossani, a West Pakistani film distributor, claimed the local climate was not suitable for film production. Kh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Jabbar Khan (director)
Abdul Jabbar Khan (1916 – 29 December 1993) was a Bangladeshi filmmaker. He was credited with directing '' Mukh O Mukhosh'' (1956), the first Bengali-language film ever made in the then East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh). The library of Bangladesh Film Development Corporation was named ''Abdul Jabbar Khan Library'' after him. Early life and education Abdul Jabbar khan was born in Masadgoan village in Dhaka-Bikrampur Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Lohajang Upazila of Munshiganj District, Bangladesh) in 1916. During his school days, Khan performed in plays like ''"Behula"'', ''"Vishwamangal"'', ''"Satirtha"'', ''"Samajpati"'', ''"Matir Ghar"'', and ''"Sohrab Rustam"''. In 1941, he earned a diploma from Ahsanullah School of Engineering. Career Khan founded ''Kamlapur Dramatic Association''. ''Mukh O Mukhosh'' In 1953, at a cultural program, F. Dossani, a non-Bengali film producer, remarked that “The climate of this land is not fit for making movies.” Khan then d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
