Surja Dighal Bari

Surja Dighal Bari
Surja Dighal Bari
Directed bySheikh Niamat Ali, Masihuddin Shaker
Screenplay byShaikh Niyamat Ali, Masihuddin Shaker
Based onSurja Dighal Bari
by Abu Ishaque
Produced bySheikh Niamat Ali & Masihuddin Shaker
Starring
CinematographyAnwar Hossain
Edited bySaidul Anam Tutul
Release date
  • 30 December 1979 (1979-12-30)
CountryBangladesh
LanguageBangla

Surja Dighal Bari (The Ominous House) is a 1979 Bangladeshi feature film directed and produced by Sheikh Niamat Ali and Masihuddin Shaker.[1] The screenplay was based on Abu Ishaque's 1955 novel of the same title.[2] It was the first film made from the Government of Bangladesh grant.[3] The film was first released in a theater in Natore.[1]

The film won Bangladesh National Film Award in 7 categories including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress.[4] It also won five international awards, including Mannheim Film Festival and Portugal Film Society.[5]

Cast

Response

Film critic Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, writing in Cinemaya in 2000, named Surja Dighal Bari as one of the top twelve films from Bangladesh.[6] Writing in 2010, scholar of Asian cinema Zakir Hossain Raju called it "one of the best films ever made in Bangladesh".[7]

Awards

Bangladesh National Film Awards

References

  1. ^ a b "'সূর্য দীঘল বাড়ী'র ইংরেজি সাবটাইটেল". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 8 April 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  2. ^ 'সূর্য-দীঘল বাড়ী' সময়ের জীবন্ত ইতিহাস. Jaijaidin (in Bengali). 15 January 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  3. ^ Sabbir Chowdhury (December 11, 2003). "Homage to Salahuddin and Sheikh Niamat Ali, filmmakers : Bangladesh loses two great exponents of film art". The Daily Star. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
  4. ^ জাতীয় চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার প্রাপ্তদের নামের তালিকা (১৯৭৫-২০১২) [List of the winners of National Film Awards (1975-2012)]. Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (in Bengali). Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Did you know?". The Daily Star. June 13, 2005. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
  6. ^ Ahmed Muztaba Zamal (Winter 2000). "National Ten Best Films". Cinemaya. Vol. 50. p. 13.
  7. ^ Zakir Hossain Raju (2010). "A Defiant Survivor". In Rashmi Doraiswamy; Latika Padgaonkar (eds.). Asian Film Journeys: Selections from Cinemaya. Wisdom Tree. p. 28. ISBN 978-81-8328-178-2.