''Chitra Nodir Pare'' (known in English as ''Quiet Flows the River Chitra'') is a Bangladeshi

Bengali language Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...

film on the destiny of a Hindu family in East Pakistan. Directed by

Tanvir Mokammel Tanvir Mokammel (born 8 March 1955) is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and writer. He is the recipient of Ekushey Padak in 2017. He won Bangladesh National Film Awards total ten times for the films '' Nodir Naam Modhumoti'' (1995), '' Chitra Nodir Pare'' ...

, the film won seven national awards including the best film and the best director of the year 1999. Other awards were best Story, best Dialogue, best Art-Director, best Supporting Actress and best Make-up Man. The film was shown in London, Oslo, Fribourg (Switzerland), Singapore, Delhi, Calcutta and Trivandrum film festivals.

Cast

* Momtajuddin Ahmed – Shashikanta Sengupta *

Afsana Mimi Afsana Karim Mimi (known as Afsana Mimi; born 20 December 1968) is a Bangladeshi actress, model and director. She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film ''Paap Punno'' (2022). Early life Afsana Ka ...

– Minoti *

Tauquir Ahmed Tauquir Ahmed (born 5 March 1966) is a Bangladeshi architect and actor, turned director in both television and cinema. His films won many international and national awards including Bangladesh National Film Awards in the Best Director, Best Scr ...

– Badal *

Rawshan Jamil Rawshan Jamil (8 May 1931 – 14 May 2002) was a Bangladeshi actress and dancer. She was awarded Ekushey Padak in the dance category in 1995 and Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film '' Noyonmoni'' (1 ...

– Anuprova *

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 ...

* Nazmul Huda

Soundtrack

The music of this film was directed by Syed Shabab Ali Arzoo.

Response

Film critic

Ahmed Muztaba Zamal Ahmed Muztaba Zamal is a Bangladeshi film critic. He is the editor of ''Celluloid'', a quarterly film magazine, and is the director of the Dhaka International Film Festival. Biography Zamal first attended a film festival, the Munich Film Festival, ...

, writing in ''

Cinemaya ''Cinemaya'' (a blend of ''cinema'' and '' maya'' (illusion)) is a film magazine established in 1988 devoted exclusively to coverage of Asian film. It is published in New Delhi, India, and distributed internationally. The present editor-in-chief ...

'' in 2000, named ''Chitra Nodir Pare'' as one of the top twelve films from Bangladesh.

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Soundtrack

Response

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