BFI London Film Festival announces 2017 dates. The 61st BFI London Film Festival will take place 4-15 October 2017. Feature and short film submissions are now open. FM 89.1 Dubai Live FM 89.1 Dubai, one of the famous radio station of Dubai. Broadcasting Live Asian programs including Pakistani, Indian, bengali and Punjabi. Mushrooms (Chatrak): Cannes 2. Review. CANNES - - Complaints are everywhere that programmers for the Quinzaine des R. Certainly Mushrooms (Chatrak) from Sri Lanka- born director Vimukthi Jayasundara underscores that complaint. Yet there is about as much visual poetry in Mushrooms as there is plot. It’s hard to see who will ever appreciate this French- Indian co- production other than overindulgent festival programmers and film critics. Chatrak (English: Mushrooms) is a 2011 Indian Bengali drama film directed by Sri Lankan director Vimukthi Jayasundara. The film was screened at several film festivals. He encounters a French soldier — no explanation why a French soldier is guarding some supposed border near Calcutta from illegal immigrants — and the two become buddies and frolic. So much so he scarcely has time for the beautiful girlfriend who has loyally awaited his return. Jayasundara and cinematographer Channa Deshapriya also shoot in dirty colors and dim enough lights that would make anyone depressed, in the movie or watching it. Food news from Gulf News. ![]() ![]()
Directed with spirit by actor turned writer and helmer Tauquir Ahmed, the film has ambitions that sometimes outstrip the results onscreen. But on balance, it’s an entertaining and engrossing watch with a moving payload at the end. It won best feature at the Cutting Edge Film Festival and has been to several Asian fests in the U. S. What makes The Unnamed special is the way it boldly alternates this type of surreal gallows humor with a genuinely moving human tragedy set in a dirt- poor fishing village. There’s little blending here; it’s more a seesaw of contrasting moods. The story begins as a kind of tropical bedroom farce as local girl Beauty (Nipun Akhter) juggles two lovers who might help her get a work permit for Dubai and leave the poverty of the village behind. One is Ramjan (Shahiduzzaman Selim), a fixer who supplies false documents, and the other is Farhad (Mosharraf Karim), a lazy local cop he catches hiding under her bed. Her plan is to “marry” the already- married farmer Asir (now working in Dubai) and travel to the Emirates as his wife. The tone abruptly shifts to tragedy, however, when the family of Wahab, another youth who works in the UAE, is notified that their son has been killed in an accident — even though they know he’s alive and well in Italy. Ramjan is made to confess that he doctored the boy’s passport and sold it to Asir, so he must be the one who died. The news comes as a huge shock to Asir’s old father (Fazlur Rahman Babu), who is called on to go to the capital to collect his son’s body. To defray expenses, the poor farmer mortgages his house. His high- mindedness is in stark contrast to the callous reaction of Ramjan, who is forced to accompany him by the (mostly comic) police to make sure things go well. The complex situation that develops at the airport teeters on tragicomedy. But when, after many travails, the little party brings the coffin back to the village for Muslim funeral rites, it’s discovered the man inside is dark- skinned and hasn’t even been circumcised. From this point on, the story becomes more surreal by the minute, juggling a who’s- in- the- coffin chase with the poor farmer’s anguish — he still can’t get his son on the phone and his whereabouts are unknown. Instead of washing his hands of the affair, he mortgages the rest of his land to return the body to the authorities and, hopefully, to his family. Easier said than done, as the body begins to decompose en route. Though uneven, Ahmed’s direction is bold, colorful and aimed at making some solid points about human nature and human dignity. While some characters like the police officer are too broadly drawn for comfort, the story springs to life with pro actors like Selim in the role of the nervous Ramjan and especially Babu as the tearful, shell- shocked father who doesn’t seem fully aware of the experience he’s living through. His final speech, in which he cuts right through the bureaucracy and determines to act piously towards the dead man, whoever he is and whatever religion he belongs to, is so unexpectedly rousing it drew applause from Bengali audiences at the Kolkata Film Festival. Venue: Kolkata Film Festival. Production companies: Impress Tele Films. Cast: Shahiduzzaman Selim, Mosharraf Karim, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Abul Hayat, Nipun Akhter, Shatabdi Wadud. Director- screenwriter: Tauquir Ahmed. Producer: Faridur Reza Sagar. Executive producer: Ebne Hasan Khan. Director of photography: Enamul Haque Sohel. Production designer: Kazi Rakib. Editor: Amit Debnath. Music: Pinto Ghosh. World sales: Impress Tele Films. Not rated, 9. 2 minutes.
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