The journey has been “fascinating, a never-ending process and difficult to let go” for the filmmaker.
He describes, in a statement, this creation as “a riveting story of a daughter out of a tragic backdrop, the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman”.
The initial conversation started with quite an open-minded brief where the core idea was to present a captivating biography in the space of a documentary.
However, the director has finally created a tale with his “layered and independent interpretation” of Hasina’s thrills, anecdotes, tragedy and trauma.
“Dramatically, yet honestly” he portrays these chronicles along with Hasina – the daughter, the human.
Hasina has been depicted as a person who actually connects the most with the history and inceptions of Bangladesh.
In an attempt to scan her journey associated with the genesis of Bangladesh, Piplu traversed the unexplored bits and pieces of her powerful, yet graceful life.
Her history might be a known one, but the filmmaker, as he termed, “has scrutinised her noble and complex backstory back and forth via time and space, tracking back from the ‘70s, in the political and historical spectrum of the subcontinent; in a way that has yet not been experienced through visceral film-making.”
Instead what he created is a tale that has got, according to him, “immense appeal for a wider audience relating to Bangladesh sitting at home or abroad”.
It is expected to be released by the end of October.
Cast and crew:
Director: Rejaur Rahman Khan Piplu
Producer: Centre for Research and Information(CRI)
Cinematographer: Sadik Ahmed
Editor: Navnita Sen
Music: Debojyoti Mishra
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