Art & Culture

A three-day theatre festival organised by the Chittagong based troupe Nandimukh ended on Monday at the Chittagong Shilpakala Academy. The festival was the first installment of a year-long programme chalked out by the troupe titled Natya Troyee to celebrate its 24 years of theatre practice. On the concluding day, the theatre department of Fame School ... Read more

Poet Sufia Kamal’s 14th anniversary of death will be observed today. One of the leading female poets of the country Sufia Kamal began writing as early as the late 1920s, when it was almost beyond imagination that a Bengali Muslim woman would write poems. When Muslim woman were not allowed to take part in the ... Read more

The real life freedom fighters have acted in Ekattur-er Guerilla a film based on a true story of the war of independence in 1971. The film illustrates some valiant guerillas, who fought and defeated the invading Pakistani army in alliance with their Bengali collaborators known as razakars who rampaged and killed thousands in the Gazipur ... Read more

The members of Baul Bazar presented songs of leading bards at a programme held at the Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Monday. With acoustics of traditional instruments dhol, ektara, dotara the singers in solos rendered songs composed by Fakir Lalon Shah, Hason Raja, Shah Abdul Karim, Pagol Chanchal, Kabi Jalal,

Leading classical singers of the country presented ragas created by Ustad Alauddin Khan at a commemorative programme organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at the Music and Dance Centre on Sunday. Ustad Allauddin Khan’s nephew Ustad Shahadat Hossain Khan and niece Reenat Fouzia shared facts about the late maestro’s talent with the audience at the programme, ... Read more

Cartoons and caricatures satirising the country’s socio-political turmoil done by leading cartoonists are on display at an on-going exhibition at the Bengal Art Lounge, Gulshan 1 in the capital. Renowned cartoonists like Rafiqun Nabi and Shishir Bhattacharia have criticised the political situation of the country, whereas, Mehedi Haque and Zeeshan Khan’s artworks portrays the depictions

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s film Television won the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema award at the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival. Eminent Indian filmmaker Gautam Ghose handed over the award to the producer of the film Faridur Reza Sagar at the star-studded closing ceremony of the eight-day festival on Sunday at the Science City ... Read more

When the seasoned singer Mustafa Zaman Abbasi started a very popular traditional number Rongila nau-er majhi in his stentorian voice modulation, the urban audience could relate themselves to the roots. His velvety voice effortlessly flowing between highs and lows of the octave created perfect narrative of the Jasimuddin’s song that narrate the pictorial beauty of ... Read more

Artist Nazia Andaleeb Preema revealed how news is manipulated and distorted through her live performance titled Newsagony at the Nalini Kanta Bhattacharia hall of Bangladesh National Museum on Saturday. Preema’s performance was a part of artist Wakilur Rahman’s visual art exhibition titled Khobor Khaddo organised to celebrate the 15 years of the Bangla daily Prothom ... Read more

Sheikh Sadi Khan tells Noted composer Sheikh Sadi Khan considers himself lucky as the recently demised legendary singer Manna Dey rendered two songs composed by him, which had been used as playbacks in a local film released in the mid 1980s. Manna Dey lent his voice for the solo Balo na ma keno klanto lage ... Read more

Renowned writer Mir Mosharraf Hossain’s 166th anniversary of birth was celebrated in Kushtia through a two-day programme at the writer’s ancestral homestead at Lahini para which is about 4 km far from Kushtia town. The programme that ended on Thursday included a discussion, presentation of music and recitation, staging of a theatre, children’s art and ... Read more

The full-house audience at the Studio Theatre of Brady Arts Centre, London on 9 November gave a big ovation to the artists at the end of the performance of Theatre’s current production Mukti. The play was staged as a part of the festival titled ‘A Season of Bangla Drama’ organised by Tower Hamlets Council from ... Read more

Humayun Mela Youths personifies Humayun’s fictional character  Hundreds of youths cladding like the Humayun Ahmed’s popular fictional character Himu attended the Humayun Mela organised to celebrate the iconic writer’s 65th birth anniversary. These bare-footed youths in yellow punjabi wandered around aimlessly at the stalls in the fair to reflect the spirit of the popular fictional ... Read more

Book Fair At Public Library Humayun Ahmed as a writer evaluated The vacuum created by the death of Humayun Ahmed in the literary arena of the country cannot be fulfilled, observed renowned critics at the inauguration ceremony of the weeklong book fair on the Central Public Library premise on Wednesday. The fair featuring iconic writer ... Read more

A two-day international film festival organised by Dhaka University Film Society ended on Wednesday at the TSC Auditorium of Dhaka University through screening of three foreign films. The programme titled World Film Manifestation Programme had its 100th edition this month. The film society organises the

Today is the 65th anniversary of birth anniversary of Humayun Ahmed, the iconic writer, script writer and filmmaker. The writer of about 200 fictions, Humayun influenced the readers and publishing industry in Bangladesh. He was also a trendsetter TV playwright and a successful filmmaker. Humayun was born at Kutubpur

Humayun Ahmed’s mother tells New Age Iconic writer Humatun Ahmed’s mother Ayesha Foyez says that her son was a really ‘naughty one’ in his childhood. Due to his curiosity he used to break the gift items and he could manage the subsequent repercussions using his wits. But, Humayun was a brilliant student and had passion ... Read more

The spectacular photographs portraying different types of butterflies existing in the country is attracting huge response from the audience in an ongoing photography exhibition at Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi. Eight environmentalist photographers are displaying 82 eye-catching photographs of around 64 species of butterflies in the group exhibition titled Chobi Dekhe Shekha: Butterflies

One of the leading dance organisations of the country Nrityanchal will perform at Asia Arts Festival in China. The 13th edition of the festival is going to take place in Kunming city of Hunan province in China from November 18 to 22. ‘It is a great honour for us to be invited by the government ... Read more

Spectacular dance recitals performed by the skilled dancers moved the audience on Friday at the Chhayanaut auditorium. Al most all genres of classical dance forms practiced by the dancers in the country including kathak, manipuri, bharatnatyam, odissi and goudia had been rendered by the leading and promising artistes at the third annual classical dance festival ... Read more