Shankhonad

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Shankhonad
Bengaliশঙ্খনাদ
Directed byAbu Sayeed
Screenplay byAbu Sayeed
Based onUrey Jaay Nishi Pokkhi
by Nasreen Jahan[1]
Produced by
  • Anjan Chowdhury Pintu
  • Abu Sayeed
Starring
CinematographyMahfuzur Rahman Khan
Edited byJunaid Halim
Music byS I Tutul
Production
company
Machranga Productions Limited
Release date
2004
Running time
102 minutes
CountryBangladesh
LanguageBengali

Shankhonad (Bengali: শঙ্খনাদ, Wail of the Conch) is a 2004 Bangladeshi drama film directed by Abu Sayeed.[2] It stars Zahid Hasan, KS Firoz, Nazma Anwar, and Fazlur Rahman Babu.

Plot[]

Osman return to his ancestral village on a stormy night, the village he had fled in the dark of the night 27 years ago. He finds shelter in the home of Mannaf Khan, a village elder. Osman seeks to rediscover his childhood and goes about reliving the past in childhood memories. He meets Kunjo Buri who had nursed him as an infant. He also meets his boyhood friend Fazlu. Osman is not after worldly gains, he only wants to spend the rest of his life in the village and the nostalgia of bygone days. That, However, is not to be. He comes face to face with a reality of a markedly different kind.

Cast[]

Festival participations[]

  • Official selection, Fribourg International Film Festival
  • Official selection, Asian African & Latin American Film Festival
  • Official selection, Commonwealth Film Festival
  • Official selection, Dubai International Film Festival
  • Official selection, International Film Festival, India

Reception[]

Writing in Variety, Deborah Young praised Mahfuzur Rahman Khan's camerawork, but said the convoluted narrative structure "is urgently in need of a substantial re-edit to make the storytelling more logical".[3]

Award[]

  • National Film Award in three categories, 2004
  • Best Film, Meril-Prothom Alo 2004[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Harun ur Rashid (4 December 2004). "Shangkhonad earns applause at première". The Daily Star.
  2. ^ a b Kajalie Shehreen Islam (29 December 2006). "Abu Sayeed: For the Love of Film". Star Weekend Magazine. The Daily Star.
  3. ^ Young, Deborah (3 January 2006). "Wail Of The Conch". Variety.


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