Cultural organisations in Dhaka are holding programmes to pay tribute to the recently deceased filmmaker Tareque Masud, cinematographer and CEO of ATN News Mishuk Munier and folk researcher Dr. Mridulkanti Chakrobarty.
Production house Gadhar Paal will hold a memorial programme and film screening for Masud and Munier. The programme will be held this evening at 7pm at the Gadhar Paal Mukto Mancho on Bailey Road.
Bangladesh Short Film Forum, in association with Federation of Film Societies of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Documentary Council, will hold a daylong film screening on August 20 to pay homage to Masud and Munier. The event will be held at Shawkat Osman Auditorium, Central Public Library in Shahbagh.
The daylong programme will feature screening of Masud’s films at 11am, 1pm and 7:30pm. A discussion will be held at 3pm. Proceeds from ticket sales will go to the family members of those who died with Masud and Munier.
Paying homage to its former teacher Mridulkanti Chakrobarty as well as to the film personalities, the Department of Theatre, Dhaka University has arranged special shows of the play “Kamola Ranir Shagordighi”. Directed by Saydur Rahman Lipon, the play will be staged at 7pm everyday, for three consecutive days, starting from today at the Natmandal auditorium on campus.
The two-day-long Selim Al Deen birth anniversary celebration that ends today has also been dedicated to Tareque Masud and Mishuk Munier.
-With The Daily Star input
