Mostofa Sarwar Farooki

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী
Born 2 May 1973
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Occupation Filmmaker, Producer, Script writer & Editor.
Years active 1999 – present[1]
Spouse(s) Nusrat Imrose Tisha (m.2010)[2]

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bengali: মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী; born 2 May 1973) is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and film producer.[3] Farooki is considered one of the leading figures to bring modernism/realism in Bangladeshi Cinema. His works often switch between a real and quasi-real world. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki could be the next South-east Asian filmmaker to break out", The Hollywood Reporter wrote in the review of his film Television. Variety's Jay Weissberg wrote. "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a key exemplar of Bangladeshi new wave cinema movement". He is also the pioneer of an avant-garde filmmakers' movement called "Chabial". His 2012 feature Television was the closing film of Busan festival and won Grand Jury Prize in Asia Pacific Screen Award 2013 in addition to 5 more international awards from Dubai, Jogja-Indonesia, Asiatica-Roma, and Kolkata. He has just completed his fifth feature titled Ant Story.

Career

He is a young director in Bangladesh who has set a new trend in terms of presentation[4] and direction in the late 1990s. His first two films, which he considers to be an educational effort, were Bachelor (2003) and Made in Bangladesh (2007). Bachelor was a big hit among the youth and opened up a new road for young cinema. His third film Third Person Singular Number was premiered in Pusan International Film Festival (2009). It had its European premier in International Film Festival Rotterdam, It was also in the official competition 2009 Middle East International Film Festival (Abu Dhabi). His fourth feature Television was the closing film of Busan International Film Festival 2012, won Grand Jury Prize in Asia Pacific Screen Awrds 2013 and was awarded a special mention at Dubai International Film Festival. It then travelled around the world and got a warm reception. It has also been selected as Bangladesh submission to 86 Academy Awards foreign language category.[5] His fifth feature Ant Story was premiered in Dubai competition. It was also nominated for Golden Goblet awards in Shanghai International Film Festival 2014.

Cinematic style

Farooki's body of work address such themes as middle class angst, urban youth romance, deception-hypocrisy and frailty of individual, frustration about the confines of one's culture and conservative Muslim concepts of guilt and redemption.

Filmography

Year Film Achievement
2016 No Land's Man
2013 Ant Story[6]
  • Nominated as Best Film : Golden Goblet Award, Shanghai Film Festival[7][8]
  • In Competition Asia Pacific Screen Award, 2014.
  • Official selection, Busan International Film Festival 2014.
  • Melbourne IFF (films From subcontinent) 2014
  • In competition, Asian Film Festival, Dallas, September 2014
  • World Premier, In Competition, Dubai International Film Festival December,2013
  • Official Project, Asian Project Market, BIFF 2013
2012 Television
2009 Third Person Singular Number[11]
  • Premiered in - Pusan International Film Festival (2009)
  • Official selection - International Film Festival Rotterdam (2010)
  • Official competition - Middle East International Film Festival (2009)
  • Winner Best Director - Dhaka International Film Festival (2010)
  • Official competition - Tiburon International (2010)
  • Official competition - Festival Cinema Africano,Asia,America,Latina,Milano,Italy (2010)
2007 Made In Bangladesh
2003 Bachelor - New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest
- Third Eye IFF Mumbai
- Asiaticafilmmediale Rome

Chabial

Farooki is the founder of Chabial, a film makers club. These group of young film makers are used to be Farooki's assistant directors. They have then used local cable television networks as a platform to master their hands in story telling and created an audience for the stories they tell. Their works have managed to connect primarily with the youth in urban and suburban parts of the Bangladeshi society for the realism in story topics and realism in execution.

References

  1. ↑ "ছবি বানাতে টাকার চেয়ে বেশি দরকার মেধা : মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Tisha-Farooki wedding photo album". Prothom-Alo. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Hoping for a revolution in films". theindependentdigital. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "Bangladesh films try to shed Bollywood style - Aljazeera".
  5. ↑ "Bangladesh Turns on ‘Television’ for Oscar Race".
  6. ↑ "Farooki on fibbing, fantasy and box office".
  7. ↑ http://www.shanghaidaily.com/feature/art-and-culture/Eclectic-mix-of-contenders-for-the-Golden-Goblet-Award/shdaily.shtml
  8. ↑ http://www.thedailystar.net/entertainment/pipra-bidya-in-golden-goblet-contention-26251
  9. ↑ "Bangladesh Turns on ‘Television’ for Oscar Race".
  10. ↑ "Farooki’s Television wins NETPAC award at Kolkata Film Festival - See more at: http://www.risingbd.com/english/detailsnews.php?nssl=8e5d5b79456a8e2bc09e54e9e518a5f1&nttl=9677#.UonMUI2Qx69".
  11. ↑ Ershad Kamol. "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki talks his style". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2012-11-16.

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