Mostofa Sarwar Farooki

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Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
মোস্তফা সরোয়ার ফারুকী
Doob: No Bed of Roses, Ant Story
Spouse
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(m. 2010)​
ChildrenIlham Nusrat Farooki (b. 2022)

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (born 2 May 1973) is a Bangladeshi film director, producer and screenwriter.[2][3] His films Third Person Singular Number, Television, No Bed Of Roses were critically acclaimed across the world and received numerous international and national awards. He founded filmmakers' movement called "Chabial".[4][5][citation needed]

Early life

Farooki was born 2 May 1973 in the Nakhalpara neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He attended Tejgaon Government Boys' High School.[6]

Career

Farooki has set a new trend in terms of presentation

Holey Artisan Bakery, Gulshan. The film had its world premiere at the main competition section of 41st Moscow International Film Festival 2019 and won the Russian Federation of Film Critics Jury Prize and Komersant Prize. It is the first of three films of his identity trilogy, the second one being No Land's Man starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and the third, Memoria will be based on the Rohingya refugees.[citation needed
]

Farooki was appointed as an international jury of Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2015,[11]Busan International Film Festival 2017[12] and Kolkata International Film Festival 2017 and Dhaka International Film Festival 2020. He was also an invited guest and speaker at many other prestigious film festivals. In 2019, he received the Fazlul Haq Memorial Award 2018 and was also honoured by Kaler Kantho newspaper on their anniversary.

Farooki also makes commercials for local and international brands like

Tisha.[13]

Cinematic style

Farooki's body of work address such themes as middle class angst, urban youth romance, deception-hypocrisy and frailty of individual, frustration about the confines of one's culture and conservative Muslim concepts of guilt and redemption.

Brisbane's Asia Pacific Screen Awards says of his work, "His films often deal with the way individuals free themselves from the limitations placed on them by their identity, economic circumstances and belief systems. To counter the deprivation they face in real life, his characters often seem to create a fantasy world around them, lending elements of magical realism to Farooki's signature style."[14] "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".

Personal life

Tisha and Farooki in 2015

Farooki is married to the actress Nusrat Imrose Tisha since 16 July 2010.[15][16] Together they have a daughter who has been named as Ilham Nusrat Farooki, born on 5 January 2022.[17]

Filmography

Year Films Notes References
2003 Bachelor
  • Official Selection - New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest
  • Official Selection - Third Eye IFF Mumbai
  • Official Selection -Asiatica filmmediale, Rome
  • Winner, Best Actress at Bangladesh National Film Award 2004
2007
Made in Bangladesh
 Winner, Special Mention (Best Film) - Dhaka International Film Festival 2008
2009 Third Person Singular Number [18]
2010 Ok, Cut
2012 Television
2013 Ant Story
2017
Doob: No Bed of Roses
2019 Shonibar Bikel
2021 No Land's Man
TBA A Burning Question
2023 Something Like an Autobiography [32]

Television

Title Notes
Ekanno Borti
69
Choruivati
420
Upsonghar
Tal Patar Shepai
Unmanush
Carrom (Part 1)
Carrom (Part 2)
Balok Balikara
Spartacus 71
Emon Deshti Kothao Khuje Pabe Nako Tumi

Web content

Year Title Platform Notes
2021
Ladies & Gentleman
 ZEE5 [33]

Chabial

Farooki is the founder of Chabial, a film makers club.[34][35] This group of young film makers used to be Farooki's assistant directors.[36] They then used local cable television networks as a platform to master their hands in story telling and created an audience for the stories they tell. Their works have managed to connect primarily with the youth in urban and suburban parts of the Bangladeshi society for the realism in story topics and realism in execution.[37][38]

References

  1. ^ ছবি বানাতে টাকার চেয়ে বেশি দরকার মেধা : মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী. bdnews24.com (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 1 November 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  2. ^ "Celebrating Mostofa Sawar Farooki's cinematic brilliance on his birthday". The Daily Star. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Hoping for a revolution in films". theindependentdigital. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Freedom of storytelling key challenge for films here". New Age. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Farooki, Tisha's 12 yrs of togetherness". daily-sun. July 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  6. ^ Karim, Elita (2 November 2012). "Farooki's Classroom Secrets". Star Weekend Magazine.
  7. ^ Sattar, Maher (15 June 2014). "Bangladesh films try to shed Bollywood style". Al Jazeera.
  8. ^ a b "Irrfan Khan's 'Doob: No Bed Of Roses' Is All Set For World Premiere At Shanghai Film Festival". India Times. 12 June 2017.
  9. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (29 February 2016). "Irrfan Khan Climbs Into Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's 'No Bed of Roses'". Variety.
  10. ^ "DOOB wins Kommersant Jury Prize at Moscow". The Daily Star. 30 June 2017.
  11. ^ Frater, Patrick (3 October 2015). "Busan's Kim Dong-ho to Head APSA Awards Jury". Variety.
  12. ^ 업체명. "WWW.BIFF.KRㅣ12-21 October, 2017". www.biff.kr.
  13. ^ Pritom, Nusrat Jahan (11 September 2016). "Versatile Maria Nur". Daily Sun. Dhaka.
  14. ^ "Jury 2015". Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
  15. ^ "Farooki and Tisha tying the knot". priyo.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
  16. ^ "Wedding bells for Farooki-Tisha". The Daily Star. 18 July 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  17. ^ "Tisha and Farooki blessed with a baby girl". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  18. ^ Ershad Kamol (16 March 2009). "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki talks his style". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  19. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (21 September 2013). "Bangladesh Turns on "Television" for Oscar Race". Variety.
  20. ^ "Farooki's Television wins NETPAC award at Kolkata Film Festival". Risingbd.com. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  21. ^ "Eclectic mix of contenders for the Golden Goblet Award". Shanghai Daily. 9 June 2014.
  22. ^ "Pipra Bidya in Golden Goblet contention". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  23. ^ "Farooki's Doob wins Kommersant Weekend Prize in Moscow". bdnews24.com.
  24. ^ a b "'Doob' to participate in two more int'l film festivals". The Independent. Dhaka.
  25. ^ "'Doob' selected for El Gouna Film Festival". The Daily Star. 10 September 2017.
  26. ^ "Cinema of the world". 10 November 2017.
  27. ^ a b c "Parambrata's 'Shonibar Bikel' screened in London and Munich". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  28. ^ "Farooki's 'Shonibar Bikel' selected for Sydney Film Festival 2019". Dhaka Tribune. 10 May 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  29. ^ Frater, Patrick (12 December 2014). "Jafar Panahi, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Among APSA-MPA Award Winners". Variety.
  30. ^ "MPA APSA Fund awards $25,000". ScreenDaily.com. 12 December 2014.
  31. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (24 November 2014). "'No Land's Man', 'Revolution' win India's Film Bazaar". Variety.
  32. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (3 August 2023). "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Leads 'Ministry of Love' 12-Film Anthology for Bangladesh Streamer Chorki (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  33. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (21 June 2021). "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Sets ZEE5 Bangladesh Original Series 'Ladies & Gentlemen'". Variety.
  34. ^ Staff Correspondent (11 May 2017). "Chabial gears up to storm the small screen this Eid". The Daily Star. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  35. ^ "Chabial Eid Reunion to feature seven different stories". Dhakatribune. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  36. ^ "ঈদে একুশে টিভিতে ছবিয়ালের সাত নাটক". bdnews24 (in Bengali). Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  37. ^ "ফিরে আসছে ছবিয়ালের নাটক". Prothomalo (in Bengali). 10 May 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  38. ^ "ছবিয়ালের নাটক শুরু". চ্যানেল আই অনলাইন. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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