Kajolrekha | |
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Directed by | Giasuddin Selim |
Screenplay by | Giasuddin Selim |
Based on | Maimansingha Gitika's Kajolrekha |
Produced by | Giasuddin Selim |
Starring | Sariful Razz Mandira Chakraborty Rafiath Rashid Mithila Sadia Ayman Azad Abul Kalam Iresh Zaker Khairul Bashar |
Cinematography | Kamrul Hasan Khasru |
Music by | Emon Chowdhury |
Production company | Palki Production |
Distributed by | Jaaz Multimedia |
Release date |
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Running time | 156 minutes |
Country | Bangladesh |
Language | Bengali |
Budget | ৳5 crore (US$420,000) [1] |
Kajalrekha is a 2024 Bangladeshi musical poetic drama film. Giasuddin Selim has directed based on Kajalrekha a Bengali fairy tale of four hundred years ago Maimansingha Gitika. [2] Sariful Razz and Mandira Chakraborty are playing the lead roles. It is released in theaters on April 11, 2024. [3]
In 2022, the shooting of the film Kajalrekha started at Susong Durgapur in Netrakona. [6]
Giasuddin Selim researched the Maimansingha Gitika's Kajalrekha for about 12 years and made the film. [7] [8]
Kajalrekha team promoted the film during the World Cup match of the Bangladesh National Cricket Team at Eden Gardens of Kolkata on 28 October 2023. [9]
The trailer was released on the film's official Facebook page on 27 March 2024. [10]
The film was scheduled to be released on February 9, 2024, in Bangladesh, Canada, and America simultaneously, [3] it was delayed and released in theaters in Bangladesh on April 11 on the occasion of Eid. [11] In International Film Festival Rotterdam's Limelight 2025 section, this film selected to screened. [12]
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