| Description |
1 online resource (115 min.) |
| Series |
Asian film online, volume 2 |
| Summary |
A kind of deconstruction of the Hamlet-theme on the backdrop of the liberation war of Bangladesh against Pakistan in 1971. During the 1971 war of Bangladesh against Pakistan, in a remote village beside the river Modhumoti, Motaleb Mollah, a landlord and a local Muslim leader, collaborated with the Pakistan army. After the death of his elder brother, Motaleb married his sister-in-law who had a young son named Bachchu, by the elder brother. There was an idealist Brahmin teacher in the village, Amulya Chakrabarty, who had some influence over the young Bachchu. The teacher had a daughter, a widow, namedâ€" Shanti. When the war with Pakistan broke out, watching a genocide perpetrated by the Pakistani soldiers, Bachchu joined the Bengalee guerillas. The experiences of the bitter war shattered Bachchu's world of innocence. His guerrilla unit was deployed on the other side of the Modhumoti river to conduct operations against the Pakistani soldiers and their Islamic collaborators. Motaleb Mollah, spurred by the title Chairman conferred upon him by the wily Pakistani major, continued to create havoc on the people around. With his gradual moral degradation Motaleb developed a carnal desire for Shanti. Then one day Motaleb's Islamic retainers killed Hindu teacher Amulya Chakrabarty and Motaleb forced Shanti to marry him. In the code of the guerillas the penalty of a collaborator was death sentence. But as Motaleb was Bachchu's father, his comrades were procrastinating. Then one evening Bachchu himself took a decision and crossed the river Modhumoti with a dinghy and a rifle and with a determined sense of mission |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed June 09, 2015) |
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In Bengali |
| Subject |
Dilemma -- Bangladesh
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Patriotism -- Bangladesh
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Dilemma.
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Patriotism.
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| SUBJECT |
Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011522
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| Subject |
Bangladesh.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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History.
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Feature films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Mokāmmela, Tānabhīra, director
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