Liberation War documentary awarded at short film festival

Bangladeshi cinema was once again honoured at the recently finished short film festival “Celluloid’17” in Kolkata, when Mridul Mamun’s Sobai Ekjat won the award for best documentary. The film festival was organised by Estrella, the official film club of Future Institute of Engineering and Management. Sobai Ekjat centres on direct participation of a freedom fighter of West Pakistani descent, named Md Afzal, in the Liberation War of 1971. The documentary seeks answers to why Md Afzal fought against his own countrymen. Sabyasachi Chakraborty, famous for his role as Feluda, and actress Aparajita Ghosh Das, among others, attended the film festival. A talented filmmaker of the country, Mridul Mamun was applauded for his previous documentaries Kabutorbaaz and Gatipoth. Mamun, a former general secretary of Bangladesh Documentary Council, currently serves as the acting secretary general of the Bangladesh Short Film Forum. With financial aid from the Government of Bangladesh, Mamun is currently working on a documentary about the 110 year history of the national anthem, Tagore’s “Amar shonar Bangla.”