Surja Dighal Bari

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Surja Dighal Bari
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Surja Dighal Bari
Directed by Sheikh Niamat Ali, Masihuddin Shaker
Screenplay byShaikh Niyamat Ali, Masihuddin Shaker
Based onSurja Dighal Bari
by Abu Ishaque
Produced bySheikh Niamat Ali & Masihuddin Shaker
Starring
CinematographyAnwar Hossain
Edited bySaidul Anam Tutul
Release date
  • 30 December 1979 (1979-12-30)
CountryBangladesh
Language Bangla

Surja Dighal Bari (The Ominous House) is a 1979 Bangladeshi feature film directed and produced by Sheikh Niamat Ali and Masihuddin Shaker. [1] The screenplay was based on Abu Ishaque's 1955 novel of the same title. [2] It was the first film made from the Government of Bangladesh grant. [3] The film was first released in a theater in Natore. [1]

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The film won Bangladesh National Film Award in 7 categories including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress. [4] It also won five international awards, including Mannheim Film Festival and Portugal Film Society. [5]

Cast

Response

Film critic Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, writing in Cinemaya in 2000, named Surja Dighal Bari as one of the top twelve films from Bangladesh. [6] Writing in 2010, scholar of Asian cinema Zakir Hossain Raju called it "one of the best films ever made in Bangladesh". [7]

Awards

Bangladesh National Film Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "'সূর্য দীঘল বাড়ী'র ইংরেজি সাবটাইটেল". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 8 April 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  2. ↑ 'সূর্য-দীঘল বাড়ী' সময়ের জীবন্ত ইতিহাস. Jaijaidin (in Bengali). 15 January 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Sabbir Chowdhury (11 December 2003). "Homage to Salahuddin and Sheikh Niamat Ali, filmmakers : Bangladesh loses two great exponents of film art". The Daily Star. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  4. ↑ জাতীয় চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার প্রাপ্তদের নামের তালিকা (১৯৭৫-২০১২) [List of the winners of National Film Awards (1975-2012)]. Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (in Bengali). Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Did you know?". The Daily Star. 13 June 2005. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Ahmed Muztaba Zamal (Winter 2000). "National Ten Best Films". Cinemaya. Vol. 50. p. 13.
  7. ↑ Zakir Hossain Raju (2010). "A Defiant Survivor". In Rashmi Doraiswamy; Latika Padgaonkar (eds.). Asian Film Journeys: Selections from Cinemaya. Wisdom Tree. p. 28. ISBN   978-81-8328-178-2.
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