Seasoned filmmaker Tanvir Mokammel’s upcoming film Jibondhuli has been nominated in the “competition” category of Jaipur International Film Festival. The event will take place from February 1 to 5 in the coming year.
The film, narrating a touching story on the milieu of the Liberation War, has been submitted to the censor board recently and the director is hoping to release the film countrywide on the Victory Day.
The film revolves around Jibonkrishna Das, a poor Hindu lower-caste drummer, whose wife and children get killed by Pakistani armed forces. It depicts how he struggles to survive against the brutality of the Pakistanis and local collaborators.
Shatabdi Wadud, Wahida Mallik Joly, Jyotika Jyoti, Ramendu Majumder and Paresh Bhuiya play the lead roles in the movie.