A children’s film based on the Liberation War, Ekattorer Khudiram, is all set to have it’s world TV premiere tomorrow on Channel i at 2:40pm.
Written and directed by playwright Mannan Hira, the film depicts the story of the Liberation War and it revolves around a chain of events that occurred at a district town in the country in March, 1971. There was a school named Sonamukhi High School that stages a play on its premises every year. Like the previous years, the school was to stage a play titled Shahid Khudiram. Khokan Banerjee, a teacher of the school, instructs the play while students of the school play roles.
The rehearsal for the play is going on in full swing as the time for the play’s launch is drawing near. Khokan excites the students by narrating the stories behind the preparations taken before the Liberation War, during the rehearsal of the play. Thus, the cast and crew gradually gets involved with the cause of the war. This is how the story of the film goes forward.
The government grant film casts a group of popular actors such as Mamunur Rashid, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Dr Enamul Haq, Momena Chowdhury, Munsi Mojnu, Chanchal, Chitra Chobi, Feroz Al Mamun, Sazzad Saju and others. The film also casts a group of child artistes – Sachcha, Rudra, Shakil, Antara, Modhumoni, Munna and Jewel Miji, among others. Mahfuzur Rahman is the cinematographer of the film, while Sujay Sham is behind the film’s music direction.
