Bangladesh film directors distance themselves from peer Anonno after arrest
Bangladesh Film Directors Association has distanced itself from director Anonno Mamun, who has been arrested along with actor Shahin Mridha about expenses of belittling the police in the video 'Nabab LLB'.
Many have protested against their arrest under the Pornography Control Action on Thursday night for using "obscene" words in the movie's dialogue.But Mushfiqur Rahman Gulzar, president of the directors' association, said on Sunday they don't support Mamun, who was detained in Malaysia in 2017 on human being trafficking fees, for what he did in the movie.
"As directors, we will be ashamed of the actions of Anonno Mamun. We do not support (obscene vocabulary in movies)," he said."A movie can be predicated on politics or it is usually critical of someone, but the language he (Mamun) has used isn't only deplorable, but also needs to be renounced," he added.
But, various other film organisers start to see the arrest of Mamun seeing that an attack in artistic licence.One of these, Belayet Hossain Mamun, wrote on Facebook: "I have been composing for a long time that we don't possess freedom in filmmaking in Bangladesh, but people in the market have paid zero heed. Now enough time has come to take my words seriously, because people have begun going to jail."
A week after "Nabab LLB" premiered by Celebrity Production on over-the-top or OTT program iTheatre on Dec 16, an inspector of the police's cybercrime product started a circumstance against Anonno Mamun and Shahin, who played the purpose of a officer in the film.A good rape victim faced "disgusting and perverted" problems by the authorities officer in the film, which belittled the force, the plaintiff said in the event.Belayet Mamun defended the scene saying that the misdeeds of a specialist portrayed in a motion picture never indict all of the people in the profession.
