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Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Indian born on 2 may 1973 at Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bengali: মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী; born May 2, 1973) is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Farooki is considered one of the leading figures to bring modernism/realism in Bangladeshi Cinema, those who have bridged the gap between escapism and reality.
"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”.
He is also the pioneer of an avant-garde filmmakers’ movement called "Chabial".
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Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Farooki is considered one of the leading figures to bring modernism/realism in Bangladeshi Cinema, those who have bridged the gap between escapism and reality.
"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”.
He is also the pioneer of an avant-garde filmmakers’ movement called "Chabial".
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Filmography of Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (3 films)
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Piprabidya (2013)
, 1h32Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Sheena Chohan
Rating61%
Everyday on the way back to his suburban home on the other side of the river, struggling young graduate Mithu keeps gazing at the dazzling city of Dhaka which is like a big pie. Everybody wants to have a stake in that pie. Mithu feels he is not properly equipped to win over his stake. So he starts to equip himself in an unusual and unethical fashion. He realizes when the world can not be changed according to his wish; it is easier to create a new customized world in his head! He embarks on a journey of faking, lying, and fantasizing. He feels the immense pleasure of creativity because 'truth is what one has while lies are what one creates'. It then turns out to be a dangerously 'creative' game of sex-lies-and videotape.
Television (2012)
, 1h46Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Chanchal Chowdhury, Mosharraf Karim, Tanjin Tisha, Nusrat Imroz Tisha
Rating81%
As a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin (Shahir Huda Rumi) bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even goes on to claim that imagination is also sinful since it gives one the license to infiltrate into any prohibited territory. But change is a desperate wind that is difficult to resist by shutting the window. The tension between this traditional window and modern wind grows to such an extent that it starts to leave a ripple effect on the lives of a group of typically colorful, eccentric, and emotional people living in that village. But at the very end of the film, Television, which he hated so much, comes to the rescue and helps Chairman Amin reach a transcendental state where he and his God are unified. A new twist to the story makes him embrace IMAGE and IMAGINATION.
Third Person Singular Number (2009)
, 2h3Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Mosharraf Karim, Tanjin Tisha, Nusrat Imroz Tisha, Abul Hayat
Rating70%
Scriptwriter
Piprabidya (2013)
, 1h32Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Sheena Chohan
Rating61%
Everyday on the way back to his suburban home on the other side of the river, struggling young graduate Mithu keeps gazing at the dazzling city of Dhaka which is like a big pie. Everybody wants to have a stake in that pie. Mithu feels he is not properly equipped to win over his stake. So he starts to equip himself in an unusual and unethical fashion. He realizes when the world can not be changed according to his wish; it is easier to create a new customized world in his head! He embarks on a journey of faking, lying, and fantasizing. He feels the immense pleasure of creativity because 'truth is what one has while lies are what one creates'. It then turns out to be a dangerously 'creative' game of sex-lies-and videotape.
Television (2012)
, 1h46Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Chanchal Chowdhury, Mosharraf Karim, Tanjin Tisha, Nusrat Imroz Tisha
Roles Story
Rating81%
As a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin (Shahir Huda Rumi) bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even goes on to claim that imagination is also sinful since it gives one the license to infiltrate into any prohibited territory. But change is a desperate wind that is difficult to resist by shutting the window. The tension between this traditional window and modern wind grows to such an extent that it starts to leave a ripple effect on the lives of a group of typically colorful, eccentric, and emotional people living in that village. But at the very end of the film, Television, which he hated so much, comes to the rescue and helps Chairman Amin reach a transcendental state where he and his God are unified. A new twist to the story makes him embrace IMAGE and IMAGINATION.
Third Person Singular Number (2009)
, 2h3Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Mosharraf Karim, Tanjin Tisha, Nusrat Imroz Tisha, Abul Hayat
Roles Writer
Rating70%
Producer
Piprabidya (2013)
, 1h32Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Sheena Chohan
Roles Producer
Rating61%
Everyday on the way back to his suburban home on the other side of the river, struggling young graduate Mithu keeps gazing at the dazzling city of Dhaka which is like a big pie. Everybody wants to have a stake in that pie. Mithu feels he is not properly equipped to win over his stake. So he starts to equip himself in an unusual and unethical fashion. He realizes when the world can not be changed according to his wish; it is easier to create a new customized world in his head! He embarks on a journey of faking, lying, and fantasizing. He feels the immense pleasure of creativity because 'truth is what one has while lies are what one creates'. It then turns out to be a dangerously 'creative' game of sex-lies-and videotape.
Television (2012)
, 1h46Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Chanchal Chowdhury, Mosharraf Karim, Tanjin Tisha, Nusrat Imroz Tisha
Roles Executive producer
Rating81%
As a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin (Shahir Huda Rumi) bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even goes on to claim that imagination is also sinful since it gives one the license to infiltrate into any prohibited territory. But change is a desperate wind that is difficult to resist by shutting the window. The tension between this traditional window and modern wind grows to such an extent that it starts to leave a ripple effect on the lives of a group of typically colorful, eccentric, and emotional people living in that village. But at the very end of the film, Television, which he hated so much, comes to the rescue and helps Chairman Amin reach a transcendental state where he and his God are unified. A new twist to the story makes him embrace IMAGE and IMAGINATION.
Editor
Piprabidya (2013)
, 1h32Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Sheena Chohan
Rating61%
Everyday on the way back to his suburban home on the other side of the river, struggling young graduate Mithu keeps gazing at the dazzling city of Dhaka which is like a big pie. Everybody wants to have a stake in that pie. Mithu feels he is not properly equipped to win over his stake. So he starts to equip himself in an unusual and unethical fashion. He realizes when the world can not be changed according to his wish; it is easier to create a new customized world in his head! He embarks on a journey of faking, lying, and fantasizing. He feels the immense pleasure of creativity because 'truth is what one has while lies are what one creates'. It then turns out to be a dangerously 'creative' game of sex-lies-and videotape.