Bangladeshi production company Goopy Bagha Productions Limited will organize a charity show of its internationally acclaimed feature film, Kingdom of Clay Subjects, at Dhaka’s Jatra Biroti on Thursday.
The earnings from the show will go to the fund created to bear the cost of medical treatment for Zahir Sumon, a former theatre and dramatics student of Jahangirnagar University.
The film’s producer Arifur Rahman told Showtime: “Sumon, a person who was so full of life is now fighting for his life. A person with a lion heart has been in hospital for heart issues over the last 20 days. The proceedings from the two charity screenings of ‘Kingdom of Clay Subjects’ will go towards Sumon's treatment.”
Sumon, who worked as a designer at Boishakhi TV, was admitted to the capital’s Square Hospital High Dependency Unit (HDU) on June 11. The 39 year old suffered from acute rheumatic fever in childhood and these complications turned fatal after all these years. One of the valves in his heart stopped working. He was initially receiving cardiac and pulmonary treatment but then Sumon had a stroke six days after being admitted to the hospital and his condition is deteriorating. He lost his ability to speak and the right side of his body is currently paralyzed.
Sumon’s doctors have recommended taking him abroad by air ambulance and performing a critical surgery on him which will cost around Tk40 lakh.
The tickets for this charity show, jointly organized by Goopy Bagha Productions Limited and Wee Hours Cinema, can be booked on the Wee Hours Cinema website.
Dhaka Theatre also organized a charity show of their production of Selim Al Deen’s play, Dhaboman, at the capital’s Shilpakala Academy yesterday (Sunday). The play was directed by Shimul Yusuf. Monipuri Theatre and Hrit Moncho also organized two charity shows of the play Happy Days at the capital’s Bailey Road Mahila Samiti Auditorium. The charity shows were produced by the French Embassy.
Proceeding from these shows were donated to the fund created for Sumon’s treatment.
