Daruchini Dwip

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Daruchini Dwip
Daruchini Dip.jpg
DVD cover
Directed by Tauquir Ahmed
Written by Humayun Ahmed
Based onDaruchini Dwip (Novel) by Humayn Ahmed
Starring
CinematographyA R Swapan
Edited byAtish Dey Sarkar
Music by S I Tutul
Production
company
Distributed by Channel i
Release date
  • 31 August 2007 (2007-08-31)
Running time
126 minutes
Country Bangladesh
Language Bengali

Daruchini Dwip (lit.'The Cinnamon Island') (Bengali : দারুচিনি দ্বীপ) is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language film. It was released on 31 August 2007 throughout Bangladesh. The film is based on the Bangladeshi novelist and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed’s popular novel of the same name. [1] It was directed by popular actor - director Tauquir Ahmed. [2] Daruchini Dwip stars Riaz, Fazlur Rahman Babu, the award-winning Zakia Bari Momo, [3] Abul Hayat, Asaduzzaman Noor, Dolly Johur, Challenger, Rahmat Ali, Wahida Mollick Jolly and Abdullah al Mamun. The film marks the debut film of Momo, Emon, Bindu, and Munmun.

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The film was appreciated by film critics and won the National Film Award of Bangladesh Best Film of the Year 2007 and was nominated in seven categories also won all of them. [4] It also won Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Bali International Film Festival Awards in Indonesia.

Plot

A team of young men and women in their 20s plan to go on a big trip across Bangladesh. The main protagonist of the film is Shuvro. They all hail from the mega city of Dhaka. In Bangladesh, being a conservative country, it is not common to the sight of a group consisting of both young, single men and women traveling together. Yet in this story, the women are seen to try to make it against the stream. Each had a different destination in mind: like Sundarban, Cox's Bazar, St. Martin's Island and many more places. Finally they decide to go to Daruchini Dwip. Shuvro (Riaz) has a big problem for his weak eyesight because he may be put out from the program. But finally the full team goes on a train with Shuvro.

Cast

Awards and achievement

International awards

National Film Awards

Daruchini Dwip won the National Film Awards total seven categories in the year of 2007.

Meril Prothom Alo Awards

Music

Daruchini Dwip
Daruchini Dip.jpg
Soundtrack album by
Released2000
Recorded2000
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Producer Impress Telefilm Ltd.

The music for Daruchini Dwip was directed by S I Tutul.

Soundtrack

TrackTitlesArtist(s)Composer(s)Lyricist(s)
1Dur Dwipobashini Samina Chowdhury and Fahmida Nabi Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam
2Mon Chay Mon Chay S I Tutul Bappa Mazumdar Fahmida Nabi Dinat Jahan Munni S I Tutul and Samina Chowdhury Kabir Bakul
3Amar Mon Kemon Kore Fahmida Nabi Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore

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