The Great Journey of Nekabbar

Nekabborer Mahaprayan

DIRECTOR: Masud Pathik COUNTRY: Bangladesh YEAR: 2014 LANGAUAGE(S): Bengali SUBTITLES: English RUNNING TIME: 60 min

SECTION: Films from Bangladesh 2015

SYNOPSIS

THE GREAT JOURNEY OF NEKABBOR is based on a poem of the same title by highly popular sociocritical poet Nirmalendu Goon who participated personally in this film. This melodrama is set during the 1971 liberation war in the Bangladeshi hinterland. The film interweaves fictional and documentary elements and features a national all-star cast. The film owes much of its overwhelming box office success to its soundtrack – a tremendously important element of Bangladeshi popular cinema.

MASUD PATHIK
Masud Pathik edits a little magazine named Bratya that mainly focuses the life and livelihood of the subaltern people of Bangladesh. Five highly acclaimed poetry books of Pathik have already been published. He also acts as the assistant editor of Pothorekha, a prestigious literary magazine in Bangladesh. Pathik is trying to break the stereotypical concepts existing in the literary and cultural fields and hopes to present the life of the common people of Bangladesh on celluloid. He works for the successful TV program Campus for Bangladesh Television as director
and presenter of the program which highlights the scenario of educational institutes of different districts of Bangladesh. Pathik is the founder of Bratya Cholochitra, a film production house. He is also the general secretary of Chobipala Eco Film Society. Moreover, he is the general secretary of Research Fellow Association of Dhaka University, an organization of the M.Phil and Ph.D researchers of the university. THE GREAT JOURNEY OF NEKABBAR is his full-length fiction film debut. Recently Masud Pathik has made a documentary film named GANATANTRER MANOSHKANNYA on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

FILMOGRAPHY
The Great Journey of Nekabbar (2015), Maya – The Lost Mother (2015), Poetree – Kobigach (2016), Color of Waiting (2016)

CAST: Mamunur Rashid, Prabir Mitra, Nirmalendu Goon, Shimla