''Matir Pahar'' is a 1959

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

film. The film was directed by Mohiuddin Ahmad. This was the third film made 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).

Cast

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 ...

Khan Ataur Rahman Khan Ataur Rahman (known as Khan Ata; 11 December 1928 – 1 December 1997) was a Bangladeshi film actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer, and singer, best known for his role in the film '' Jibon Theke Neya'' (1970). He ...

* Mesbah Shahjahan

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, ...

, when asked in 2000 by the magazine ''

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 ...

'' to name the top ten films from Bangladesh, named ''Matir Pahar'', made when the country was still East Pakistan, as one of the top twelve. According to critic Alamgir Kabir, ''Matir Pahar'' "failed miserably" at the box office, unable to compete with films made in India and Lahore with established stars.

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* 1959 films 1959 drama films Bengali-language Pakistani films Bangladeshi drama films 1950s Bengali-language films {{Bangladesh-film-stub