Several powerful films on the liberation war have been made in 44 years since Bangladesh won her freedom in 1971. The directors of some of these films have shared their challenges and gratification on making independence war-based films with New Age. Noted director Chashi Nazrul Islam made Ora Egarojon, the first film on the war ... Read more
Entertainment
Memorabilia of noted personalities on display
Bangladesh National Museum has showcased memorabilia of 24 distinguished personalities who have contributed to the country in diverse fields. The exhibition is a part of the museum’s ‘Oral History Project’, which seeks to display memorabilia, audio and video records of more than one hundred renowned and unparalleled personalities born in the country. The project is ... Read more
Ruhee going strong
With a red tip on forehead and an honest smile, the starry-eyed, beautiful face of actress Dilruba Yasmeen Ruhee is on posters of the film Shongram all over the capital and other parts of the country as the film is scheduled to be released on March 28. The actress first came under the limelight as a ... Read more
World Puppet Day celebrated at BSA
World Puppet Day was celebrated through an array of events comprising a seminar featuring problems and prospects of puppet theatre in the country on Sunday at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Organised by the academy, the day-long programme also featured a colourful procession, discussion session where a seasoned puppeteer was honoured and puppet show. The seminar was ... Read more
Bangladesh prepares for another record
Bangladesh has already joined the names of record-holders in the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest human flag which was made on February 21 by thousands. This time the country is all set to accomplish another record by singing the national anthem by tens of thousands of people. Preparations for the record-making
World Children’s Theatre Day celebrated
World Children’s Theatre Day was celebrated through a colourful programme at the National Art Gallery Auditorium of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday. Peoples’ Theatre Association, in alliance with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, organised the programme. Numerous child and young theatre
Poems on women’s contribution recited
War Of Independence Poems on women’s contribution recited When it comes to contributions in the war of independence in 1971, the male freedom fighters are generally highly glorified in this patriarchal society and the women who also played heroic roles in the war often go unsung. A programme was held to recognise the contributions of ... Read more
Boishommo, 2 other films hit screen today
Director Adam Dawla’s debut film Boishommo and Raju Chowdhury’s Toke Bhalobastei Hobe and Ek Number Asami are going to hit the cinemas today across the country. While Raju Chowdhury’s films are usually the commercial Dhallywood types, Dawla’s Boishommo is a film with a difference. The two-hour feature film Boishommo
Dol Purnima Lalon Smaran Utsab ends
The five-day Lalon Smaran Utsab-2014 (Lalon memorial festival) ended on Wednesday at the shrine of the most influential baul, Fakir Lalon Shah at Chheuriy, in Kushtia. The festival is usually held in the first week of the month of Chaitra in the Bangla calendar marking dol purnima (full moon night). The festival was organised
Child artistes celebrate National Children Day
ChilD artistes celebrated the National Children Day through music and dance recitals at a vibrant programme held at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Monday. The programme was organised by the academy in celebration of National Children Day and also the 94th birth anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of ... Read more
Child artistes thrill audience
Child artistes of Nalanda School presented music and dance at a programme held at the Chhayanaut Auditorium on Sunday evening. Nalanda School, which is a sister concern of Chhayanaut, organised the programme to mark the 81st birth anniversary of late cultural personality Waheedul Haq (1933- 2007). The music and dance recitals
Artist Bipad Sen depicts life around rivers
River has always been a source of livelihood for the people of Bangladesh, a country crisscrossed with numerous rivers. Rivers not only nurture life but they have helped shape the minds of many artists of this region who have been depicting the character of rivers in their paintings from time immoral. Such a river-revering artist ... Read more
Waheedul Haq remembered
Late cultural personality Waheedul Haq (1933- 2007) was recalled marking his 81st birth anniversary through different cultural programmes in the capital on Sunday. Cultural organisations Chhayanaut and Kanthashilon, both founded by renowned Tagore exponent Waheedul Haq, arranged two-day colourful programmes marking their
Dhaka Theatre stages Outsider
Noted theatre troupe of the country Dhaka Theatre brought French novelist Albert Camus’ famous novel The Outsider on stage. Translated and directed respectively by Rubaiyat Ahmed and Nasir Uddin Yusuff, the play staged its press show on Friday at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Both the translator and director
Lives of common people in Kabir’s paintings
Artist Shahid Kabir, in his ongoing 12th solo exhibition, has presented paintings featuring the lives of commoners with all their everyday joys in magnificence. Titled ‘I Bow My Head to You in Deep Obeisance’, the exhibition includes 53 paintings, mostly in mixed media on canvas and a few etchings. No heart-wrenching struggle or tattered slums ... Read more
What the female tongue speaks
The patriarchal society has always managed to silence the ‘female-tongue’ by force or by guile. That is why civilisation has forever unambiguously spoken a male dialect. What danger lies there in women’s minds, what could have come out of the female-tongue, is a question of conjecture still. A conjecture of that sort is
Festival to promote single episode teleplay
The five-day teleplay festival featuring single episode teleplay will end today with a view to promoting single episode plays at the Shawkat Osman Auditorium of Central Public Library. Beginning on Sunday, the festival titled ‘Charuneedam Television Kahinichitra Utsab 2012-2013’ has been organsied by cultural organisation Charuneedam with the theme Ek Ghontar Kahinichitra
An evening of folk music
A full-hall audience was entertained by seasoned and young folk singers at a programme on Tuesday at Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpkala Academy. Bangladesh Loka Sangeet Parishad organised the programme to celebrate the forthcoming Independence Day. In befitting stentorian voices,
BSA unveils treasure trove
760 masterpieces on display Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, for the first time ever since its founding in 1974, has exhibited its grand collection of original artworks by maestros in an exhibition. For the aficionados of fine arts, the two week-long exhibition of 760 masterpieces by late and contemporary master artists is a rare chance that no ... Read more
BSA observes Int’l Women’s Day
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy has chalked out a six-day programme to observe the International Women’s Day. The programme features theatre shows, documentary and film screening, recitation, discussion and others at the theatre halls, music and dance centre and national art gallery auditorium. The event was inaugurated by