Sci-fi adventure Ender’s Game has zoomed to the top of the US box office chart in its debut weekend, reports BBC online. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, about an 86-year-old and his eight-year-old grandson, was shunted into second after hitting the number one spot last week. Ender’s Game, a story about children forced to fight an ... Read more
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Quiz show “Bangladesh First” starts on Maasranga
Tv Watch Quiz show “Bangladesh First” starts on Maasranga The competition episodes of “Rin presents Bangladesh First”, an educational venture for Bangladesh’s youth, begins tonight on Maasranga TV. The show is powered by Standard Chartered Bank and brought to you by Champs21.com in association with The Daily Star. The competition began its journey across the ... Read more
‘Classical music practice not satisfactory’
Classical music practice in the country is not satisfactory, despite the fact the country has a rich history in classical music, observes a seminar held on Saturday at the Bengal Shilpalaya in Dhanmondi. Musicologist Alimur Rahman Khan in his keynote speech gives the opinion that both classical music practice and musicians have not been patronised ... Read more
Shimla makes her debut in Kolkata film
Dhallywood actor Shimla has made her debut in Kolkata film industry known as Tollywood. She has paired up with the Bollywood superstar Govinda in the film Samadhi, which will hit cinemas in Paschimbanga on November 15. In fact, Dipak Sanyal’s big budget film features actors and crews from Bollywood, Tollywood and Dhallywood. Besides Shimla, another Dhallywood ... Read more
Underprivileged children present music, recitation
Underprivileged children from Narsingdi presented music, recitation, acrobatic and fashion show on Saturday at the Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. District Shilpakala Academy of Narsingdi and the underprivileged children’s organisation Badhonhara jointly organised the programme. The programme began with
“The Counselor”: A tale of mostly evil
Film Review “The Counselor”: A tale of mostly evil “The Counselor,” Ridley Scott’s terrifying, implacable new movie, opens on a seductive scene. The setting is a softly lighted bedroom in which two people are murmuring under a white sheet. You don’t see who they are until there’s a cut to under the sheet, bringing you ... Read more
Anup Barua presents Manna Dey’s songs
Popular classical music singer Anup Barua entertained the audience presenting evergreen Manna Dey’s songs in a commemorative programme organised by Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in memory of the recently demised legendary singer of India. A popular classical and semi-classical singer Barua gave a soulful presentation of Dey’s 18 songs at the programme
Suman Chowdhury renders Tagore songs
The versatile singer Suman Chowdhury, who achieved success rendering Nazrul Sangeet and classical music, proved his skill as a Rabindra Sangeet artiste in a solo musical programme at the Chhayanaut auditorium on Friday evening. The audience enjoyed five evergreen Tagore songs presented by Chowdhury from his first Tagore album
BSA arranges acrobatic workshop for children
Fifty children aged between five and 15 are getting training on difficult acrobatic techniques at a workshop at the Rajbari Acrobatic Centre. Two acrobats, Shahana Akhter and Khurshida Khatun, are conducting the three-month workshop organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy with the mission to create skilled acrobatic artistes. Despite a huge popularity, acrobatic is neglected in ... Read more
Krrish 3 gets a grand opening
‘Krrish 3’ is equipped with a spectacular range of special effects and extravagant action sequences. Actor Hrithik Roshan returns as the superhero with the film that is third installment in the franchise that began with ‘Koi… Mil Gaya’ in 2003, reports India Today. Vivek Oberoi plays Kaal, the villain, in the movie that is directed and ... Read more
Animesh deals with urban family crisis
Zero Degree, a film featuring the stories of an urban crisis-torn family life where the focus is on the people’s lives when family bond becomes weak, started its shooting phase. The maharat of the film was held at the Seven Hill Restaurant on Tuesday noon through a grand opening show. The director and the scriptwriter ... Read more
Swani Zubayeer composes playback of a film
Talented musician Swani Zubayeer will direct the music of a film for the first time. The film titled Ghashphool directed by Akram Khan contains two songs namely – Shomoy theme giyechhilo, lyric by Mohammad Rafiquazzaman and composed by Lucky Akhand; and Bohudin por, lyric and composition by Swani Zubayeer herself. ‘I have lent my voice for
Tagore’s songs presented
Chhayanaut artistes presented a number of Tagore songs at the monthly Tagore evening Geetmalika on Thursday at the Ramesh Chandra Dutt Centre of the institute. Chhayanaut arranges such a programme on the last Friday of every month. But this month it was on a Thursday due to unavailability of halls. In a very ordinary arrangement
Rural serenity on display
Two artists from outside the capital are displaying a number of landscape paintings featuring the harmonious relation between man and nature set against the backdrop of the rural Bangla at the duet exhibition at the Bengal Art Lounge in Gulshan. As both of the artists are from the agricultural rich southwest part of the country, ... Read more
Singers to pay tribute to Manna Dey today
Different singers of the country will present recently demised legendary singer Manna Dey’s evergreen songs in phono-live concerts and live musical programme today. Sumon Chowdhury and Alak Sen will render Manna Dey’s songs at the special phono-live programme titled Icchey Gaaner Dupur to be aired at 2:30pm on Maasranga TV. Besides presenting
Azizul Hakim directs drama serial
Azizul Hakim is directing a drama serial named Nijgrihe Parobashi, which Banglavision started to broadcast from last Sunday. In addition, the seasoned actor nowadays is busy with acting in different drama serials. Nijgrihe Parobashi, written by Hakim’s wife Zinat Hakim, features sweet and bitter experiences of a newly
Udichi artistes present popular songs
Forty-five artistes of different branches of Udichi Shilpigoshthi in chorus presented the signature tune of the organisation, Arshir samne eka eka, at the 45th founding anniversary programme at TSC of Dhaka University on Tuesday. Udichi Shilpigoshthi singers also performed the popular songs, they rendered on different occasions, such as Amra manusher joyogaan gai, Hushiyar, Dhor ... Read more
Kamar Ahmad Simon shares his Sydney tour
Kamar Ahmad Simon attended the Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2013 in Sydney along with selected filmmakers from around the world who shared their hands-on experience in filmmaking. He also took a ‘master class’ on October 06 in which he shared his experience of making film in Bangladesh. The architect turned director
Eid albums fail to attract much audience
Only a few out of the 70 audio and video albums released in a week during the Eid-ul-Azha could make profit, said sources at the production houses of the country. The production houses admitted that their strategy of releasing huge number of albums to resurrect the slumped trade audio market had actually failed. They further admitted ... Read more
Banglavision pays tribute to Manna Dey
Popular singers Badshah Bulbul and Moutushi will sing songs of Manna Dey in a tributary phonolive studio concert to be aired today at 11:25pm on Banglavision. In the programme titled Music Club, the singers will present popular numbers of the late music icon Manna Dey. Besides, they will share theirexperiences with the recently demised Dey. Audience ... Read more