The three-day festival featuring Zahir Raihan’s films ended on Saturday through screening of two classics Taka Ana Pai (1970) and Jibon Theke Neya (1969) at the National Art Plaza auditorium.
Five films were screened at the festival organised by theatre and film department of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy as part of its annual programme of commemorating the cultural personalities.The festival was inaugurated by professor Abdus Selim on Thursday. Raihan’s film Kancher Deyal (1963) was screened following the inauguration.
On the second day of the festival, Raihan’s landmark documentary on the war of independence in 1971 titled Stop Genocide was screened.
Behula (1966), another noted film by Raihan, was also screened on the same evening.
‘It is a commemorative programme. Shilpakala Academy arranges such programmes every year to commemorate noted cultural personalities of the country’, said Sara Ara Mahmud, director theatre and film department of the academy.
Overall, the programme had been able to attract a large number of film lovers.
‘I watched all the five films screened in the festival. It was a good opportunity for me,’ said Shahed Ahmed, a student of Siddheshwary University College. ‘Shilpakala Academy should screen more films by other noted directors also,’ he observed.
-With New Age input
