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Ajob Karkhana
''Ajob Karkhana'' (Bengali: আজব কারখানা, also known as ''Song of the Soul'' in English) is a 2022 Bangladeshi musical drama film written and directed by Shabnam Ferdousi and produced by Samia Zaman. It is the debut fictional film for Ferdousi, who is known as a documentary filmmaker. The film was made with a grant from the Bangladeshi government. The film stars Kolkata actor Parambrata Chatterjee as a rock star, Rajib. Fashion model Shabnaz Sadia Emi makes her big screen debut as Rajib's girlfriend, a model. Chatterjee described most of the supporting cast as musicians more than actors. The music was composed by Labik Kamal Gaurob, the band Seven Minutes, and Tonmoy Tansen of the Bangladeshi band Vikings. Plot Rajib, a popular young rockstar, is offered to host a folk music TV show. Though hesitant at first, he agrees after a producer’s persuasion. Traveling to rural areas to meet Baul musicians, he finds new meaning in life and shifts from rock to folk mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shabnam Ferdousi
Shabnam Ferdousi, a Bangladeshi film maker and film activist, is working in different sectors of audio-visual media for the last 28 years. She made about 40 documentary films. She has done many feature shows, infotainment programs, talk shows for various TV channels and organizations. She worked as an executive producer more than 100 documentary films for Ekattor TV, ATN News and Jamuna Television. She is also known as a news presenter and TV show presenter. She has been working as the Head of Program in Ekattor TV for the last 12 years. She achieved 10 film awards along with the National Film Award of Bangladesh Govt. in 2016 for her documentary film ''Born Together''. She also got the prestigious FIPRESCI award for her debut fiction "Song of the Soul" in 2022. She has been awarded government funding for her debut fiction film ''Ajob Karkhana'' (Song of the Soul) in 2017. The movie '' Ajob Karkhana'' directed by Shabnam was released on 12 July 2024. Education and career Ferd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chittagong
Chittagong ( ), officially Chattogram, (, ) (, or ) is the second-largest city in Bangladesh. Home to the Port of Chittagong, it is the busiest port in Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. The city is also the business capital of Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of an eponymous division and district. The city is located on the banks of the Karnaphuli River between the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the Bay of Bengal. In 2022, the Chittagong District had a population of approximately 9.2 million according to a census conducted by the government of Bangladesh. In 2022, the city area had a population of more than 5.6 million. The city is home to many large local businesses and plays an important role in the Bangladeshi economy. One of the world's oldest ports with a functional natural harbor for centuries, Chittagong appeared on ancient Greek and Roman maps, including on Ptolemy's world map. It was located on the southern branch of the Silk Road. In the 9th century, merc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Bangladesh Grants Films
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The main types of modern political systems recognized are democracies, totalitarian regimes, and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with a variety of hybrid regimes. Modern classification systems also include monarchies as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three. Historically prevalent forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladeshi Musical Drama Films
Bangladeshis ( ) are the citizens and nationals of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centred on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the permanent residents of the former East Pakistan were transformed into citizens of a new republic. Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous nation. The vast majority of Bangladeshis are ethnolinguistically Bengalis, an Indo-Aryan people. The population of Bangladesh is concentrated in the fertile Bengal delta, which has been the centre of urban and agrarian civilizations for millennia. The country's highlands, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts and parts of the Sylhet Division, are home to various tribal minorities. Bengali Muslims are the predominant ethnoreligious group of Bangladesh with a population of 150.36 million, which makes up 91.04% of the country's population as of 2022. The minority Bengali Hindu population made up approximately 7.95% of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali-language Bangladeshi Films
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is native to the Bengal region (Bangladesh, India's West Bengal and Tripura) of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language speakers as of 2025, Bengali is the sixth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also the second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. It is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s Bengali-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western Languages of Europe, European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic abjad, Northwest Semitic Shin (letter), šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma (letter), Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the ''Ξ, xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Films
2022 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2022, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures celebrated their 110th anniversaries and Motion Picture Association celebrated their Centennial, 100th anniversary. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2022, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "This year, it’s all the more important to offer a widely inclusive list, because a wide range of American filmmakers have caught up with the inescapable phenomenon of the recent past: the resurgence of openly anti-democratic forces and brazenly hate-driven ideologies, the crisis of illegitimate rule, the menace of authoritarianism, the potential end of even our current debilitated American democracy. The phenomenon is certainly not limited to the United States, and filmmakers from around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIPRESCI
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for ''Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique'') is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in Brussels, Belgium. It has members in more than 50 countries worldwide. History In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIPRESCI announced that it will not participate in festivals and other events organized by the Russian government and its offices, and canceled a colloquium in St. Petersburg, that was to make it familiar with new Russian films. FIPRESCI Award The FIPRESCI often presents awards during film festivals to recognize examples of enterprising filmmaking. Some of these festivals include: the Berlin International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, Vienna International Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narayanganj
Narayanganj () is a city in central Bangladesh in the Greater Dhaka area. It is in the Narayanganj District, about southeast of the capital city of Dhaka. With a population of almost 1 million, it is the 6th largest city in Bangladesh. It is also a center of business and industry, especially the jute trade and processing plants, and the textile sector of the country. It is nicknamed the Dundee of Bangladesh, due to the presence of its many jute mills. (Dundee was the first industrialised 'Juteopolis' in the world.) History The city got its name from Bicon Lal Pandey, a Hindu religious leader who was also known as Benur Thakur or 'Lakshmi Narayan Thakur'. He leased the area from the British East India Company in 1766 following the Battle of Plassey. He donated the markets and the land on the banks of the river as ''Devottor'' or 'Given to God' property, bequeathed for maintenance expenses for the worship of the god Narayana, Narayan. A post office was set up in 1866, and Dhaka-N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Bangladesh Quota Reform Movement
The 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement was a series of anti-government and pro-democracy protests in Bangladesh, spearheaded primarily by Universities in Bangladesh, university students. Initially focused on restructuring Quota system of Bangladesh Civil Service, quota-based systems for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many perceived as an authoritarian government when they carried out the July massacre of protestors and civilians, most of whom were students. Started as a student movement, the movement later escalated into a fully-fledged mass uprising known as the July Revolution (Bangladesh), July Revolution. The protest began in June 2024, in response to the Supreme Court of Bangladesh Ohidul Islam and others v. The Government of Bangladesh and others, reinstating a 30% quota for descendants of Mukti Bahini, freedom fighters, reversing the government decision made in response to the 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement. Students began to fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list of cities proper by population density, most densely populated cities in the world with a density of about 34,000 citizens per square kilometers within a total area of approximately 300 square kilometers. Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million residents as of 2024, and a population of over 23.9 million residents in Greater Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan Area. It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world. Dhaka is an important cultural, economic, and scientific hub of Eastern South Asia, as well as a major list of largest cities in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member countries, Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks list of cities by GDP, third in South Asia and 39th in the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samia Zaman
Samia Zaman is a Bangladeshi media personality, filmmaker and producer. She was a television news presenter, reporter and talk show host. In 2006, she emerged as a film director. She also serves as the Editor and CEO of the television channel Ekattor TV. Career In 1989, Zaman started out her career as a producer at the BBC World Service in London. Zaman served as a journalist and news presenter in Ekushey Television. Films In 1987 Zaman worked in the film ''Suchona'', with the director Morshedul Islam as an assistant. In 2006, she emerged as a filmmaker through her direction on the film ''Rani Kuthir Baki Itihash''. She directed her second film, ''Aakash Koto Dure'', in 2014. In March 2015, Zaman served in the judge panel of Geneva International Oriental Film Festival. In 2024, Zaman produced the film ''Ajob Karkhana'' (2024) which direction by Shabnam Ferdousi and the film are produced under her own banner Versa Media. Personal life Zaman has three daughters. Awards * Ananny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
