Entertainment Industry in Bangladesh

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How many FM radio stations in BD now? Like 7?

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Originally Posted by King Nothing

How many FM radio stations in BD now? Like 7?

10 legal radio stations in Dhaka.

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Bangladesh’s Impress Group Launches Project to Back Young Filmmakers

by Clarence Tsui


The South Asian country’s leading media conglomerate will finance and distribute the feature debuts of six emerging local directors.

HONG KONG – Bangladesh’s budding filmmakers have received a further boost with one of the country’s leading corporations pledging to back projects from first-time directors.
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Launched on March 30 in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, Impress Boutique Cinema will finance directorial debuts from six of the country’s upcoming directors, said director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, whose own first film Third Person Singular Number was produced by Impress Group as well.

Chosen by Farooki, the six projects are Amitabh Reza’s Proxy, Abu Shahed Emon’s Jalal’s Fathers, Adnan ad Razeev’s X, Golam Kibria’s Camphor, Akram Khan’s Who Are You and Robiul Alam Robi’s Hardcash.

Jalal’s Fathers, a social drama exploring the psychological state of a child, will be the first one to begin production, Farooki added, with shooting slated to commence in May. The plan is for all six films to be completed by March 2014, he said.

“When I was traveling to different festivals, I was dreaming of something like this,” said Farooki, whose Third Person premiered at Rotterdam in 2009 and second film Television was the closing film at the Busan International Film Festival last October.

“I felt compelled to tell the world that we have some exciting people in the pipeline. Then a few months back, I approached Faridur Reza Sagor and requested him to produce and finance this debut feature project,” he continued (Sagor is the managing director of Impress Group’s filmmaking arm, Impress Tele-film, and digital satellite channel Channel i, and the producer of Golam Rabbany Biplob’s On the Wings of Dream, which was screened at Toronto in 2007).

Impress Group is one of the largest business conglomerates in Bangladesh, with business interests ranging from textiles and pharmaceuticals to media and entertainment.
With young directors still locked out of the mainstream because of logistical challenges (such as high taxation and ramshackle post-production and exhibition systems) or financing limitations (audiences rarely venture beyond Bollywood imitations), they often now turn to privately-owned television platforms like Impress’ s Channel i to fund their small-budgeted, digitally-shot work.

“Over the last few years, Bangladesh has seen a tremendous rise of interest in filmmaking,” said Farooki. “Though there is still no exclusive film school in Bangladesh -- there are some faculties in the private universities, but they seriously lack proper standards -- young filmmakers have been preparing by helping each other and learning from one another."

“Then there is the advantage of digital technology. It helped them to start making short films or telefilms. It helped them to practice the art of storytelling and taking their stories directly to the audience.”

The Boutique Cinema project represents yet another sign of how the Bangladeshi media industry is waking up to a new wave of young directors coming through the ranks and gaining a foothold in the film festival circuit. More than a decade after the late Tareque Masud’s The Clay Bird won the Fipresci prize at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, directors like Farooki and Ishtiaque Zico (whose short film 720 Degrees was selected for Venice in 2010) are shifting some of the attention usually focused solely on the mammoth cinematic juggernaut in neighboring India.

Boosted by the growing stature he nurtured in the festival circuit, Farooki is now readying to shoot a new “urban psychological thriller” titled Camera, after shopping another project, Biscuit Race, at Goa’s Film Bazaar and the Dubai Film Market late last year.


The Hollywood Reporter

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Busan 2012: Festival Closer 'Television' Ushers in New Era for Bangladeshi Cinema

by Lee Hyo-won


Director Mostofa Farooki's wry comic drama reflects the South Asian film sector's move toward mainstream entertainment.

Television may take its name from an an old-fashioned character who believes TV is evil, but this year’s Busan closer also mirrors a more forward-thinking trend in the film sector in Bangladesh: the development of homegrown movies from telefilms.

Beginning about 10 years ago, the advent of satellite TV has allowed filmmakers to experiment with new styles working for the small screen. “There is no film school in Bangladesh, so we had to learn from their mistakes,” said Television director Mostofa Farooki. "About 20 young filmmakers have become established names and created a huge audience for the genre. We hope we can channel this energy from TV to the big screen. We are still trying to create our own syntax, own vocabulary, own visual style. We are still trying to find our own way of expression.”

Television was selected by BIFF for the Asian Cinema Fund in 2000 and received postproduction support from Korean giant CJ Powercast. “The selection really gave me a boost and the confidence [to make the film], and plus it gave me the money, which is of course essential,” Farooki added.

He said he still cannot define the genre of the film, which mixes comedy, drama and satire to tell the story about religious views and generational gaps. Actress Nusrat Imrose Tisha, who is married to Farooki, said she was excited to show how the roles of Bangladeshi women are changing through Television.

The film also pushed the envelope a bit, by featuring a non-professional actor in the lead role: Shahir Kazi Huda, an environmental consultant who had done small stints in films and commercials, had to quit his job and undergo rigorous training to create his character, including picking up a local dialect. “I am very honored for the opportunity to work on the movie,” said Huda.

BIFF director Lee Yong-kwan says Television was an easy choice as the closing film.
“It was first of all very entertaining as a movie, in both its subject matter and storytelling. It was selected by not only BIFF but also representative experts from around Asia for the Asian Cinema Fund, for a reason,” he said. “A new trend can be industry-related or artistic, and the fact that a country is creating domestic films through telecinema is monumental. BIFF felt compelled to showcase this movement.”


Farooki, whose feature Third Person Singular Number premiered at BIFF in 2009, says he is inspired by a large number of filmmakers, from Korea’s Kim Ki-duk and Lee Chang-dong to Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao-Hsien and France’s Robert Bresson.

Lee pointed out that Television in turn offers Korean filmmakers something to learn about satire, which isn’t particularly a forte for local movies.

“Bangladesh is creating new waves in cinema and I am looking forward to the audience’s reaction when they see the film during the closing ceremony on Saturday. Such films allow us to endorse foreign cultures and to promote communication among Asians,” he said.

The Hollywood Reporter

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10 legal radio stations in Dhaka.

Minus Bangladesh Betar? Thats cool.

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Originally Posted by King Nothing

Minus Bangladesh Betar? Thats cool.

Including BBC Bangla and Bangladesh Betar.

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That means 8 FM channels with Radio Foorti being the biggest and most popular.

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DW to produce New TV series in Bangla

Deutsche Welle (DW), a German broadcast station, will produce new science and technology show in Bangla from April 13 (Saturday) to be telecast on Ekushey TV for Bangladesh. The announcement came from a press conference at a hotel in the city on Wednesday. German Ambassador in Dhaka Dr Albrecht Conze, DW Distribution Executive for South Asia Tobias Grote-Beverborg, DW Bangla chief Debarati Guha and Ekushey TV chairman Abdus Salam were, among others, present at the press conference. — UNB

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