Matir Pahar

Matir Pahar
Film poster
Directed byMohiuddin Ahmad
Written bySayed Shamsul Haque
Screenplay byKazi Mezbah Ujjaman
Produced bySayed Muhammad Parvez
Music bySomor Das
Distributed byStar Film Distributor
Release date
  • 1 January 1959 (1959-01-01)
CountryPakistan
LanguageBengali

Matir Pahar is a 1959 Bengali film. The film was directed by Mohiuddin Ahmad. This was the third film made in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).[1]

Cast

Response

Film critic Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, when asked in 2000 by the magazine Cinemaya to name the top ten films from Bangladesh, named Matir Pahar, made when the country was still East Pakistan, as one of the top twelve.[2]

According to critic Alamgir Kabir, Matir Pahar "failed miserably" at the box office, unable to compete with films made in India and Lahore with established stars.[3]

References

  1. ^ "One Sultana Zamal". Dainik Janakantha. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  2. ^ Muztaba Ahmed Zamal (Winter 2000). "National Ten Best Films". Cinemaya. Vol. 50. p. 13.
  3. ^ Hoek, Lotte (2014). "Cross-wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive". BioScope. 5 (2): 111. doi:10.1177/0974927614547989. S2CID 154148790.


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