Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and film producer
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (born 2 May 1973) is a
Bangladeshi film director, producer and screenwriter.
[2]
[3] His films
Third Person Singular Number ,
Television ,
No Bed Of Roses were critically acclaimed across the world and received numerous international and national awards. He founded filmmakers' movement called "Chabial" .
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citation needed ]
Early life
Farooki was born 2 May 1973 in the
Nakhalpara neighborhood of
Dhaka ,
Bangladesh . He attended Tejgaon Government Boys' High School.
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Career
Farooki has set a new trend in terms of presentation
[7] and direction in the early 2000. His debut film was
Bachelor (2003) starring
Humayun Faridi ,
Aupee Karim ,
Ferdous Ahmed ,
Shabnur and many others. Then his second film, a political satire
Made In Bangladesh (2007) starring
Zahid Hasan ,
Tariq Anam Khan ,
Shahiduzzaman Selim and others. His third film
Third Person Singular Number starring
Nusrat Imrose Tisha ,
Topu ,
Mosharraf Karim was premiered in
Busan International Film Festival (2009). It had its European premier in
International Film Festival Rotterdam , It was also in the official competition 2009
Middle East International Film Festival . After that he made a short film named Ok Cut. His fourth feature
Television (2012) starring
Chanchal Chowdhury , Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Mosharraf Karim and Kazi Shahir Huda Rumi was the closing film of Busan International Film Festival and won the APSA Grand Jury Prize in 2013, as well as a further five international awards from Dubai,
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival , Rome's Asiatica Film Mediale, and
Kolkata International Film Festival . His fifth feature film
Ant Story starring
Sheena Chohan and Noor Imran Mithu was nominated for the Golden Goblet Awards and the
Dubai International Film Festival 's
Muhr AsiaAfrica Awards . In 2014 it was also in competition for APSA and both the Singapore and Kerala International Film Festivals. He finished his sixth feature film
Doob: No Bed of Roses starring international star
Irrfan Khan , Nusrat Imrose Tisha,
Parno Mittra ,
Rokeya Prachy and others.
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[9] It was an official project of Film Bazar India 2013. It won Dubai Film Market Award and Kommersant Jury Prize at
Moscow International Film Festival 2017.
[10] He is all set to release his upcoming ambitious project, a one-shot film, Saturday Afternoon starring Nusrat Imrose Tisha,
Parambrata Chatterjee , Zahid Hasan,
Eyad Hourani ,
Mamunur Rashid , a Bangladesh-Germany-Russia co-production inspired by the Dhaka terror attack incident of 1 July 2016 at the
Holey Artisan Bakery , Gulshan. The film had its world premiere at the main competition section of 41st
Moscow International Film Festival 2019 and won the Russian Federation of Film Critics Jury Prize and Komersant Prize. It is the first of three films of his identity trilogy, the second one being No Land's Man starring
Nawazuddin Siddiqui and the third, Memoria will be based on the
Rohingya refugees . [
citation needed ]
Farooki was appointed as an international jury of
Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2015,
[11]
Busan International Film Festival 2017
[12] and
Kolkata International Film Festival 2017 and
Dhaka International Film Festival 2020. He was also an invited guest and speaker at many other prestigious film festivals. In 2019, he received the Fazlul Haq Memorial Award 2018 and was also honoured by
Kaler Kantho newspaper on their anniversary.
Farooki also makes commercials for local and international brands like
Djuice ,
Citycell ,
Banglalink ,
Ekhanei.com ,
Crown Cement ,
Grameenphone ,
Close-Up ,
Robi etc. His most popular commercial was for Meril Soap bar starring
Tisha .
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Cinematic style
Farooki's body of work address such themes as middle class angst, urban youth romance, deception-hypocrisy and frailty of individual, frustration about the confines of one's culture and conservative Muslim concepts of guilt and redemption.
Brisbane's
Asia Pacific Screen Awards says of his work, "His films often deal with the way individuals free themselves from the limitations placed on them by their identity, economic circumstances and belief systems. To counter the deprivation they face in real life, his characters often seem to create a fantasy world around them, lending elements of magical realism to Farooki's signature style."
[14] "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki could be the next South-east Asian filmmaker to break out",
The Hollywood Reporter wrote in the review of his film Television .
Variety ' s Jay Weissberg wrote. "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a key exemplar of Bangladeshi new wave cinema movement".
Personal life
Tisha and Farooki in 2015
Farooki is married to the actress
Nusrat Imrose Tisha since 16 July 2010.
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[16] Together they have a daughter who has been named as Ilham Nusrat Farooki, born on 5 January 2022.
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Filmography
Year
Films
Notes
References
2003
Bachelor
Official Selection - New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest
Official Selection - Third Eye IFF Mumbai
Official Selection -Asiatica filmmediale, Rome
Winner, Best Actress at
Bangladesh National Film Award 2004
2007
Made in Bangladesh
Winner, Special Mention (Best Film) -
Dhaka International Film Festival 2008
2009
Third Person Singular Number
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2010
Ok, Cut
2012
Television
Closing film -
Busan International Film Festival 2012 (world premiere)
Bangladesh's submission to 86th
Academy Award foreign language category.
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Winner, Jury Grand Prize -
Asia Pacific Screen Award 2013.
Nominee, Best Film and Best Screenplay -
Asia Pacific Screen Award 2013
Winner, City of Rome Award (jury) for best Asian Feature Film and Audience Award(Best Film) - Asiatica 2013, Rome-Italy.
Winner,
NETPAC Award -
Kolkata International Film Festival , 2013
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Winner, Special mention award, Muhr AsiaAfrica
Dubai International Film Festival 2012.
Winner, Golden Hanoman Award -
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2013
Official Competition -
Asia-Pacific Film Festival , 2012
Official Competition -
Cinemanila International Film Festival 2012
Official Selection -
International Film Festival of Kerala
Official Selection, Open Doors Screening -
Locarno Film Festival
Official Selection -
Portland International Film Festival 2014
Winner, Asian Cinema Fund for script development and Post-Production -
Busan International Film Festival
Winner -
Gothenburg Film Festival fund 2010 for script development
Official Project, Asian Project Market, BIFF 2010
Official Project, Film Bazaar India, 2010
Official Selection -
Keswick Film Festival 2014
2013
Ant Story
Official Competition -
Shanghai Film Festival
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Official Competition -
Asia Pacific Screen Award , 2014.
Winner, Best Film Director (Critics Choice) -
Meril Prothom Alo Awards 2014.
Official selection -
Busan International Film Festival 2014.
Official Selection - Melbourne IFF (films From subcontinent) 2014
Nominee, Silver Screen Award -
Singapore International Film Festival 2014
Nominee, Jury Award, Best Asian Film - Asian Film Festival, Dallas 2014
Official Competition,
Dubai International Film Festival December, 2013 (World Premiere)
Official Competition -
International Film Festival of Kerala 2014
Official Project, Asian Project Market, BIFF 2013
Official Competition -
Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema 2014
2017
Doob: No Bed of Roses
Winner, Dubai film market award - Film Bazar India 2013
Winner, Kommersant Jury Prize -
Moscow International Film Festival 2017
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Official Competition -
Shanghai International Film Festival 2017
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Official Selection -
Busan International Film Festival
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Official Competition -
El-Gouna Film Festival 2017
[25]
Official Selection -
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017.
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Closing Film - South Asian Film Festival, Paris, 2017.
Official Selection - 48th
International Film Festival of India , Goa 2017.
[26]
Official Competition - Festival Cinema Africano, Asia e America Latina 2018
Official Selection -
Filmfest München 2018
Official Selection -
Seattle International Film Festival 2018
Official Selection -
Asian World Film Festival 2018.
Official Selection -
London Indian Film Festival 2018
Official Selection - Asian Film Festival, Barcelona
Official Selection -
International Film Festival of Kerala 2017
Bangladesh's submission to 91st
Academy Awards foreign language film category.
Nominee, Best Actor(Critics), Best Lyrics, Best Cinematography, Best Background Score -
Filmfare Awards East
Official Selection - Chicago South Asian Film Festival 2018
Official Selection - International Film Festival of South Asia, Toronto 2018
2019
Shonibar Bikel
Nominee, CineCo Pro Award -
Filmfest München
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Official Selection,
Busan International Film Festival 2019
Official Selection,
London Indian Film Festival 2019
Official Selection,
Sydney Film Festival .
[28] 2019
Official competition,
Moscow International Film Festival 2019
Official Selection, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2019
Official competition,
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema 2020
Official Selection, Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival 2020
2019 - Kommersant Prize
[27] Moscow International Film Festival
2019 - Russian Federation of Film Critics Jury Prize,
[27] Moscow International Film Festival
2020 - NETPAC Award, Vesoul International Film Festival for Asian Cinema
2020 - Kumamoto City Award, Fukuoka International Film Festival
2020 - High School Award, Vesoul International Film Festival for Asian Cinema
2021
No Land's Man
TBA
A Burning Question
2023
Something Like an Autobiography
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Television
Title
Notes
Ekanno Borti
69
Choruivati
420
Upsonghar
Tal Patar Shepai
Unmanush
Carrom (Part 1)
Carrom (Part 2)
Balok Balikara
Spartacus 71
Emon Deshti Kothao Khuje Pabe Nako Tumi
Web content
Chabial
Farooki is the founder of Chabial , a film makers club.
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[35] This group of young film makers used to be Farooki's assistant directors.
[36] They then used local cable television networks as a platform to master their hands in story telling and created an audience for the stories they tell. Their works have managed to connect primarily with the youth in urban and suburban parts of the Bangladeshi society for the realism in story topics and realism in execution.
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"Farooki's 'Shonibar Bikel' selected for Sydney Film Festival 2019" . Dhaka Tribune . 10 May 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019 .
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