A day-long workshop on Creative Writing and Storytelling, organized by Notre Dame University Bangladesh English Club (NDUBEC), hold on Saturday, July 21, 2018, at Notre Dame University premises categorized in three sessions: Screenplay Writing, Literary Writing, and Graphic Storytelling. NDUB Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Fr Patrick Daniel Gaffney was present as the chief guest, NDUB Registrar…
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Ankur Art and Cultural Institute of India organized a panel discussion on four seminar books of Avik Gangopadhyay on August 26, 2018, at 11 am-2 pm at the premises of Kolkata Press Club, India where Avik Gangopadhyay honored with recognition for idiosyncratic literary endeavors and recent awards from home and abroad along with a 4-member…
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Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ is remarkably well-known in theatre, but for the very first time in Bangladesh. The ground-breaking academic text adapted to Bangladeshi context in a pastiche approach mish-mashing. Lalonism and literary-socio-political allusions where celebrated artistes Ahmed Rubel and Shahadat Hossain will be seen as the new Estragon-Vladimir (Gogo and Didi) duo renamed…
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The precisely substantial screenplay and well-sculpted characterization have made the plot new to the viewers as scenes seem unpredictable, and thereby the film raises the suspense: what’s next!. “And thus, with a kiss, I die” is not unknown to the fans of Romeo and Juliet. Director Badrul Anam Saud has smartly fulfilled the cliché demand…
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When films sing poetry through screenplay, camera, setting, and characterization, an enchanting depth of your sleep takes place. Such bliss I encountered in my recent film-voyage with the Golden Globes winning Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford. The film finely versed and framed in terms of visual aesthetics. Despite having an aspiring career, you are…
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Our hopes run high when we see Bangladeshi directors making worthy attempts at combining urgent social issues with visual aesthetics. Such a film is Haldaa, directed by renowned media personality Tauquir Ahmed, released in December 2017. But what actually makes a film a film? There are subtle differences between making a drama on-screen and a film…
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Ahmed Tahsin Shams (This article was published on October 10, 2015, at The Daily Observer Art & Culture) Two movies of this year – set their sail crossing the fence with abundant applause from home and abroad. This present change in film-scenario, sort of a trend of bucketing foreign awards or nomination or screening…
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Christ and Krishna are hardly different: Antony Phiringi AHMED TAHSIN SHAMS [This article was published on August 1, 2015 in The Daily Observer] Srijit Mukherjee, the director of ‘Jatiswar’, a national award winning Indian-Bangla film and primarily selected by the Indian Oscar committee, perhaps spoke through the character of Maya (Swastika Mukherjee) that “both the…
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