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Tareque Masud is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Bangladais born on 6 december 1956 at Bhanga Upazila (Bangladesh)
Tareque Masud (Bengali: তারেক মাসুদ; 6 December 1956 – 13 August 2011) was a Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist. He first found success with the films Muktir Gaan (1995) and Matir Moina (2002), for which he won three international awards, including the International Critics' FIPRESCI Prize, in the Directors' Fortnight section outside competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The film became Bangladesh's first film to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
He died in a road accident on 13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a filming location. The cinematographer Mishuk Munier, his long-time director of photography, was also killed in the accident. Masud was working on Kagojer Phool (The Paper Flower). In 2012, he received Ekushey Padak, the highest civilian award of Bangladesh posthumously. In 2013, New York University Asian/Pacific/American Institute, and South Asia Solidarity Initiative, hosted the first North American retrospective of his films.
Tareque was involved in the film society movement from his university days and started his first film Adam Surat (The Inner Strength), a documentary on the Bangladeshi painter SM Sultan, in 1982. His 1995 feature length documentary on the 1971 Liberation War, Muktir Gaan (Song of Freedom) brought record audiences and became a cult classic. He also made many other films on the war, including Muktir Kotha (Words of Freedom, 1999), Narir Kotha (Women and War, 2000) and Naroshundor (The Barbershop, 2009). In 2002, he completed his feature film Matir Moina (The Clay Bird), which was based on his childhood experience in the madrassa. The film won the Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, was the first Bangladeshi film to compete in the Oscars, and was released in many countries around the world.
In addition to his filmmaking work, he was also a pioneer of the independent film movement in Bangladesh. Tareque was a founding member of the Short Film Forum, the leading platform for independent filmmakers. In 1988, he organized the country’s first International Short and Documentary Film Festival, which is held on a biannual basis to this day. He was also known as the ‘Cinema Feriwalla’ for the way in which he showed his films, touring remote towns and villages throughout the country with his mobile projection unit.
His wife, American-born Catherine Masud, was his creative and life partner. They met at the time he was completing work on Adam Surat and spent the next two decades making films together through their production house Audiovision. Together they wrote scripts, often co-directed, and toured the country and the world with their films. Catherine also edited all of their work.
Masud died on August 13, 2011 in a tragic road accident while returning from work on location for his upcoming feature film Kagojer Phul (The Paper Flower), on the 1947 partition of Bengal. Also killed in the accident was his longtime cinematographer and friend Mishuk Munier, along with three other colleagues. Catherine Masud and four others survived the accident. Since his death, Catherine has established the Tareque Masud Memorial Trust, which is dedicated to the task of archiving and memorializing Masud’s work through publications, educational projects, screening programs, and the completion of their unfinished oeuvre.
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Tareque Masud
Nationality Bangladesh
Birth 6 december 1956 at Bhanga Upazila (Bangladesh)
Death 13 august 2011 (at 54 years) at Ghior Upazila (Bangladesh)
Birth 6 december 1956 at Bhanga Upazila (Bangladesh)
Death 13 august 2011 (at 54 years) at Ghior Upazila (Bangladesh)
He died in a road accident on 13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a filming location. The cinematographer Mishuk Munier, his long-time director of photography, was also killed in the accident. Masud was working on Kagojer Phool (The Paper Flower). In 2012, he received Ekushey Padak, the highest civilian award of Bangladesh posthumously. In 2013, New York University Asian/Pacific/American Institute, and South Asia Solidarity Initiative, hosted the first North American retrospective of his films.
Biography
Tareque Masud was born on 6 December 1956 in Nurpur village, Bhanga Upazila, Faridpur District, East Pakistan. He had started his education in an Islamic madrasah, however, later Masud pursued general education. He had completed his HSC from Adamjee Cantonment College and completed his Masters degree in History from the University of Dhaka.Tareque was involved in the film society movement from his university days and started his first film Adam Surat (The Inner Strength), a documentary on the Bangladeshi painter SM Sultan, in 1982. His 1995 feature length documentary on the 1971 Liberation War, Muktir Gaan (Song of Freedom) brought record audiences and became a cult classic. He also made many other films on the war, including Muktir Kotha (Words of Freedom, 1999), Narir Kotha (Women and War, 2000) and Naroshundor (The Barbershop, 2009). In 2002, he completed his feature film Matir Moina (The Clay Bird), which was based on his childhood experience in the madrassa. The film won the Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, was the first Bangladeshi film to compete in the Oscars, and was released in many countries around the world.
In addition to his filmmaking work, he was also a pioneer of the independent film movement in Bangladesh. Tareque was a founding member of the Short Film Forum, the leading platform for independent filmmakers. In 1988, he organized the country’s first International Short and Documentary Film Festival, which is held on a biannual basis to this day. He was also known as the ‘Cinema Feriwalla’ for the way in which he showed his films, touring remote towns and villages throughout the country with his mobile projection unit.
His wife, American-born Catherine Masud, was his creative and life partner. They met at the time he was completing work on Adam Surat and spent the next two decades making films together through their production house Audiovision. Together they wrote scripts, often co-directed, and toured the country and the world with their films. Catherine also edited all of their work.
Masud died on August 13, 2011 in a tragic road accident while returning from work on location for his upcoming feature film Kagojer Phul (The Paper Flower), on the 1947 partition of Bengal. Also killed in the accident was his longtime cinematographer and friend Mishuk Munier, along with three other colleagues. Catherine Masud and four others survived the accident. Since his death, Catherine has established the Tareque Masud Memorial Trust, which is dedicated to the task of archiving and memorializing Masud’s work through publications, educational projects, screening programs, and the completion of their unfinished oeuvre.
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Filmography of Tareque Masud (8 films)
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Words of Freedom (2012)
, 1h20Directed by Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Documentary
Rating84%
Muktir Katha is a film about the liberation struggle of 1971. The film is an archive of the ways in which ordinary people fell victim to genocide, rape and other atrocities. The struggle still ranging in the countryside, and struggle for a more just and democratic society. The combined footage shot used in the film was taken from American film maker Lear Levin.
Runway (2010)
, 1h30Directed by Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Nusrat Imroz Tisha
Rating81%
Ruhul, a young frustrated boy lives in a small hut near an international airport.
Homeland (2005)
, 1h25Directed by Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Sara Zaker, Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachy
Rating76%
Ontorjatra (literally meaning "inner journey") is an Bengali intimate exploration of the complex issues of dislocation and identity in a diasporic world. After 15 years in the UK, Shireen and her son Sohel return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh for the funeral of Sohel's father. For Shireen the homecoming allows her to make peace with her ex-husband and his family, for Sohel, the journey allows him to connect with a family and a "homeland" he has never known.
The Clay Bird (2002)
, 1h34Directed by Tareque Masud
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about religion, Films about Islam, Films about school violence
Actors Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachy
Rating83%
The film is set against the backdrop of unrest in East Pakistan in the late 1960s leading up to the Bangladesh War of Liberation. In this setting, a small family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world. Anu, a young boy, is sent off to a madrasah by his unbendingly devout father Kazi. Anu's younger sister falls ill and dies because of Kazi's refusal to use conventional medicine. While at the madrasah, Anu befriends Rokon, an eccentric misfit in the rigorous religious school, who is forced by the teachers to undergo an exorcism by ducking in the freezing river to cure himself.
Song of Freedom (1995)
, 1h18Directed by Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres War, Documentary
Rating91%
In 1971 the people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) waged a bitter war of liberation against West Pakistan, which ended in December in 1971 with the foundation of the state of Bangladesh. The film Muktir Gaan is an special and rear archive of footage of this war. Firstly the footage taken by American filmmaker Lear Levin shot of a group of young musicians and actors who at the time travelled through the country with battle songs and political puppet shows. The film follows the group not only during their performances for refugees and guerillas but also during their travels, which has produced many melancholy pictures. Levin's material is available for the first time thanks to two filmmakers from Bangladesh who, being discontent with the present regime, wanted to remind the Bengal people of the initial motives of the war of liberation: freedom and democracy. Despite opposition by the government, the film was screened in Bangladesh where it was a resounding success.
The Inner Strength (1988)
, 54minutesDirected by Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Documentary
Rating85%
Adam Surat is the first film of Masud. It is a documentary about Bangladeshi painter Sheikh Mohammed Sultan (well known as "SM Sultan"). Masud started the film in 1982 and completed after seven years later. By that time, he had met and married the Chicago-born Catherine Shapere (wel known as Catherine Masud), with whom he formed a close working relationship still death.
Scriptwriter
Runway (2010)
, 1h30Directed by Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Nusrat Imroz Tisha
Roles Writer
Rating81%
Ruhul, a young frustrated boy lives in a small hut near an international airport.
Homeland (2005)
, 1h25Directed by Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Sara Zaker, Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachy
Rating76%
Ontorjatra (literally meaning "inner journey") is an Bengali intimate exploration of the complex issues of dislocation and identity in a diasporic world. After 15 years in the UK, Shireen and her son Sohel return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh for the funeral of Sohel's father. For Shireen the homecoming allows her to make peace with her ex-husband and his family, for Sohel, the journey allows him to connect with a family and a "homeland" he has never known.
The Clay Bird (2002)
, 1h34Directed by Tareque Masud
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about religion, Films about Islam, Films about school violence
Actors Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachy
Rating83%
The film is set against the backdrop of unrest in East Pakistan in the late 1960s leading up to the Bangladesh War of Liberation. In this setting, a small family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world. Anu, a young boy, is sent off to a madrasah by his unbendingly devout father Kazi. Anu's younger sister falls ill and dies because of Kazi's refusal to use conventional medicine. While at the madrasah, Anu befriends Rokon, an eccentric misfit in the rigorous religious school, who is forced by the teachers to undergo an exorcism by ducking in the freezing river to cure himself.
Producer
Words of Freedom (2012)
, 1h20Directed by Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Documentary
Roles Producer
Rating84%
Muktir Katha is a film about the liberation struggle of 1971. The film is an archive of the ways in which ordinary people fell victim to genocide, rape and other atrocities. The struggle still ranging in the countryside, and struggle for a more just and democratic society. The combined footage shot used in the film was taken from American film maker Lear Levin.
Homeland (2005)
, 1h25Directed by Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Sara Zaker, Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachy
Roles Producer
Rating76%
Ontorjatra (literally meaning "inner journey") is an Bengali intimate exploration of the complex issues of dislocation and identity in a diasporic world. After 15 years in the UK, Shireen and her son Sohel return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh for the funeral of Sohel's father. For Shireen the homecoming allows her to make peace with her ex-husband and his family, for Sohel, the journey allows him to connect with a family and a "homeland" he has never known.
Song of Freedom (1995)
, 1h18Directed by Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud
Origin Bangladesh
Genres War, Documentary
Roles Producer
Rating91%
In 1971 the people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) waged a bitter war of liberation against West Pakistan, which ended in December in 1971 with the foundation of the state of Bangladesh. The film Muktir Gaan is an special and rear archive of footage of this war. Firstly the footage taken by American filmmaker Lear Levin shot of a group of young musicians and actors who at the time travelled through the country with battle songs and political puppet shows. The film follows the group not only during their performances for refugees and guerillas but also during their travels, which has produced many melancholy pictures. Levin's material is available for the first time thanks to two filmmakers from Bangladesh who, being discontent with the present regime, wanted to remind the Bengal people of the initial motives of the war of liberation: freedom and democracy. Despite opposition by the government, the film was screened in Bangladesh where it was a resounding success.