Four Bangladeshi films screened in Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival

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NEW DELHI, Dec 8, 2018 (BSS) – Four Bangladeshi feature films were
screened in the 5th Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival-2018 that drew huge
attention among the Bengali community living in the India’s Telengana state.

The 3-day festival began at Prasad Film Preview Labs, Hyderabad yesterday,
in which 10 Bangla films-four from Bangladesh and six from West Bengal–were
screened.

The Bangladeshi films which were screened in the festival being organized
by Bengalis in Hyderabad (popularly known as BiH) since 2014 are- “Dressing
Table, Aggyatonama (unknown), Khancha (trap) and Kaler Katha”.

Telengana State Chief Secretary S.K Joshi inaugurated the festival
yesterday when Bangladesh High Commissioner to New Delhi Syed Muazzem Ali
attended as the guest of honour with Ranjon Chowdhury, President of HBFF, in
the chair.

Film producers, directors, actors, distinguished guests from the film
industry from both the countries, among others, joined the colourful opening
ceremony. Bangladeshi film “Dressing Table” produced by Impress Telefilm was
screened in the special show before the opening ceremony.

Actress Apu Biswas joined the festival from Bangladesh along with the West
Bengal artistes.

S.K Joshi in his opening remarks said that Bangladesh and India have close
historic culture ties. Both Bangladesh and West Bengal have close ties in
socio-cultural arena as their people used to speak in Bangla language, he
said.

He said organizing such festival would help further boost ties between the
two countries in future and it would help increase people-people contact.

Syed Muazzem Ali, in his deliberation, opined that the people to people
contact would further enhance especially in cultural arena when such festival
would be organized every year.

Recalling India’s recognition to Bangladesh as an independent state, he
said organizing Bangladeshi films in the month of December brings special
significance for Bengali nation as India recognized Bangladesh on December 7,
1971.

He called upon the organizers to organize such festival every year
involving all stakeholders.

Apart from films, traditional Bengali foods and clothes were displayed in
the festival for the visitors. Hyderabad is the capital of India’s Telengana
state where over 7.50 lakh Bangalies are residing.