Title of film : The Tales of Chandrabati
Director Name : N. Rashed Chowdhury
Cast & crew :
Producer : N. Rashed Chowdhury,Abul Khair
Editor : Sankhajit Biswas
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Synopsis : The young daughter of a veteran poet, Chandrabati is in love with another poet Jayananda. On the eve of their marriage, Jayananda betrays Chandrabati and marries another woman in the community. The pain stricken Chandrabati chooses a passionate life, confining herself inside a Shiva Temple, vowing to rewrite the great Indian epic Ramayana. She recalls her early writings and decides to transform Sita - the ignored female of the epic - into the main hero. Jayananda realizes his grave mistake and returns to the temple seeking forgiveness from Chandrabati. She refuses to listen to him and concentrates on completing her mission of rewriting the epic into a ballad of her own conscious. The rejected Jayananda commits suicide by drowning in the nearby river. The pain stricken Chandrabati gets very sick after this incident but still struggles to remain obdurate of completing her journey. Set in the mid-sixteenth century, classical East Bengal context, Chandrabati Kotha (aka The Tales of Chandrabati) is a tribute to the passionate world of this pioneering feminist Bengali poet, Chandrabati.
Director Bio : N. Rashed Chowdhury is an Independent filmmaker and film activist in Bangladesh since 1989. He has been involved with Bangladesh Short Film Forum-the pioneer organization of independent film movement in Bangladesh. Since his high school days, Rashed had been an active participant of the Film Society movement of Bangladesh, initiated during the sixties. Rashed has made a couple of short films and documentaries that were screened in various international film festivals globally. He led the independent film movement and carried out the responsibility of the President of Bangladesh Short Film Forum & worked twice as a Festival Director of the `International Short & Independent Film Festival, Dhaka-organized biennially by Bangladesh Short Film Forum since 1988. Rashed′s debut feature film: Chandrabati Kotha (aka-The Tales of Chandrabati) won the `National Film Grant′ for a feature film (2014-2015), awarded by the Government of Bangladesh. Rashed has extensive experience in Film Productions and worked as Executive Producer for 7 feature films in Bangladesh-shot between 2014-1019. He has completed his Masters from the University of Pune, India.
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