''Akash Ar Mati'' (''The Sky and the Earth'') is a 1959
black and white
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Media
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film directed by
Fateh Lohani
Fateh Lohani (1920 – 12 April 1975) was a Bangladeshi actor, film director, writer and journalist.
Early life
Fateh Khan Lohani was born into a renowned Bengali Muslim ''Khan Pathan'' family descended from the '' Lohani'' Pashtun tribe in t ...
and produced by Film Development Corporation (FDC).
It was the first sound feature produced in
East Pakistan
East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...
(now
Bangladesh
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) including post-production,
though like ''
Mukh O Mukhosh
''Mukh O Mukhosh'' () 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. Nuruzzaman (d. 1975) was the founder producer of Iqbal Films. The ...
'' (''The Face and the Mask''), the first Bengali-language film made in East Pakistan, it used some cast and crew from the
West Bengal film industry.
Background
''Akash Ar Mati'' was actor-director Fateh Lohani's second venture. ''Satrang'', an Urdu film directed by him was released in 1965.
He based ''Akash ar Mati'' on one of dramatist
Bidhayak Bhattacharya's stories. A musical film, it was thematically ambitious. But it suffered from poor technical knowledge and the inexperience of film-makers of
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 o ...
. The film flopped commercially.
Legendary Bangladeshi actress
Sumita Devi
Sumita Devi () (born Hena Bhattacharya) also known as Nilufar Begum (February 2, 1936 - January 6, 2004) was a Bangladeshi actress. In 45 years of her career, she acted in around 200 films and 150 radio and television dramas. She was an artist at ...
,
Fazlul Karirt, Pradip, the first Bangladeshi hero
Aminul Haque,
Dagu, Ali, Zinat, Rablul, Madhuri, Tejon, and Ranon acted in the film.
Baby Islam was the cinematographer.
was the music director.
Cast
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Sumita Devi
Sumita Devi () (born Hena Bhattacharya) also known as Nilufar Begum (February 2, 1936 - January 6, 2004) was a Bangladeshi actress. In 45 years of her career, she acted in around 200 films and 150 radio and television dramas. She was an artist at ...
* Fazlul Karirt
* Madhuri
* Aminul Haque
*
Rabiul Alam
See also
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Cinema of Bangladesh
The Cinema of Bangladesh, locally known as Bangla cinema, is a diverse and vibrant entity, consisting of films produced across various regions in Bangladesh, each contributing its unique linguistic and cultural perspective. Beyond the dominan ...
References
External links
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1959 films
1959 musical films
Bengali-language Pakistani films
Bangladeshi musical films
1950s Bengali-language films
Films scored by Subal Das
Films directed by Fateh Lohani