A story that touches all
A trailer of a film which is waiting for release has become viral on social media. The 2 minute 48 seconds trailer has created quite a storm among the movie buffers, even among the political leaders and MPs. The number of views and shares keeps rising.
What is the film about, whose trailer touched the people of all levels?People who still haven't got the chance to watch the trailer probably still are wondering, however, those who watched it, are expressing how mesmerized they were after watching the trailer.
We are talking about the much anticipated film 'Hasina: A Daughter's Tale', a docu-drama based on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's life. Since the trailer of this dou-drama was released, it has become the center of discussion. The film is the result of an extensive 5-year-long collaboration between Center for Research and Information (CRI) and Applebox Films' founder and director Rezaur Rahman Khan Piplu.
September 28 was the 72nd birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the trailer was released a day before that to dedicate her. The 70-minute docu-drama is now waiting to be released worldwide. It was produced by CRI with Sadik Ahmed as the cinematographer, Navnita Sen as editor, and Debojyoti Mishra as music director.
The filmmaker describes the biography based documentary as "a riveting story of a daughter out of a tragic backdrop; the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman."The initial conversation about the project started with quite an open-minded brief where the core idea was to present a captivating biography in the space of a documentary.
However, the director has finally created a tale with "layered and independent interpretation" of her thrills, anecdotes, tragedy and trauma. "Dramatically, yet honestly" he portrays these chronicles along with the image of Hasina- the daughter, the human.The maker explained the process as "organically progressing with the uncanny and unusual sides" of one of the most iconic figures of our time.
In the film Sheikh Hasina has been depicted as a person who actually connects most with the history and inception of Bangladesh. In an attempt to scan her journey associated with the genesis of Bangladesh, Piplu traversed the unexplored bits and pieces of her powerful, yet graceful life.
Her history might be a known one, but the film-maker, as he termed, "has scrutinized her noble and complex back story back and forth via time and space, tracking back from the '70s, in the political and historical spectrum of the subcontinent; in a way that has yet not been experienced through visceral film-making."
The film-maker's intention throughout the process was to convey the story in an authentic manner, unmarred by any influence.Instead what he created is a tale that has got, according to him, "immense appeal for a wider audience relating to Bangladesh sitting at home or abroad."
