DHAKA, March 18, 2022 (BSS) - Young artists blended their creative endeavours

into digital artwork 'The Fearless Call' reimagining the directives of
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's landmark speech on March 7, 1971.

In the digital mural mash up, organized by think-tank CRI and its youth
secretariat Young Bangla, the artists explored what ignited a nation to fight
for independence.

Owing to the display, people converging in front of the Dhanmondi 32
residence of Bangabandhu travelled back to the glorious chapters of history.
His residence is the breeding ground for political turnarounds, including the
hoisting of the red and green flag to the 1971-arrest of Bangabandhu by the
Pakistani occupation force to the 1975-assassination of his family.

The collaborative artwork depicts Bangabandhu's contextualization of the
oppression that would justify an independence movement. It explores the
directives of how an independence movement would play out for the colonized
nation. Different pieces of the artwork have been stitched with fine-tuned
typography for the viewer to explore and learn.

Themes depicting Bangabandhu's charisma, the 23 years colonial subjugation,
shocking incidents of bloodshed, call for an economic boycott, ensuring the
safety of at-risk groups, gearing up for a war, and a clarion call for
freedom, have all been mashed up into one collaborative piece.

The dynamic artists behind 'The Fearless Call' are Reesham Shahab Tirtho,
Saiyad Saif Ali, Sushmita Das Dewan, Ishrat Jahan Shaeera, Faiaz Rafid,
Ahsana Angona, and Md. Mojjammil E Hamid.

As the Joy Bangla Concert paying a tribute to the March 7 speech of the
father of the nation was halted for two years in a row due to the Covid-19
pandemic, this artwork worked as its alternative in relaying history by
creative means.

Effusively appreciating the artwork in the digital sphere, Professor Nisar
Hossain of Fine Arts recalled the pioneering role of artists in reinstating
the ideology of Bangabandhu in post-1975 Bangladesh when anti-liberation
forces left no stone unturned to hush up the pro-liberation voices.

Praising art techniques portraying the 'Himalaya-like stature as stated by
Fidel Castro', Professor Nisar also recommended for organizing the artwork to
a bigger extent in the coming years.

MP Nahim Razzaq, MP Nahid Izhar Khan, Mohammad Hossain, director general of
Power Cell and Dr Mamun Al Mahtab also spoke.