Chowdhury Zawata Afnan recently received a Youth Acting Award from the Universe Multicultural Film Festival of Los Angeles for his outstanding performance in Amar Bondhu Rashed, a film based on
the war of independence ‘71.
An officer of ministry of foreign affairs handed the certificate
and souvenir to Afnan on May 28.A 95 minute film Amar Bondhu Rashed, directed by prominent director Morshedul Islam, was screened at the international film festival on April 14 this year.
The festival committee handed certificate and souvenir to an official of Consulate General of Bangladesh in USA.
‘It is a big honour for me, I did not even imagine that I would be getting this award,’ Afnan told New Age.
A second year student of HSC at City College, Afnan is busy with his academic studies and hopes to act again if a film with a good storyline is offered to him.
Amar Bondhu Rashed is based on noted writer Zafar Iqbal’s novel bearing the same title. A small town boy named Ibu narrates the story of his school friend Rashed who made his friends aware and motivated about the liberation movement in 1971. During the war, the school friends who help out the Muktibahini get separated and unite eventually but Rashed is martyred in a battle.
-With New Age input
