A student of Psychology department at Dhaka University (DU), Shaheduzzaman was watching an Iranian movie during a film fest at the National Museum in the capital city on Monday.
Titled ‘Crazy Look’ and produced by Abul Hasan Boudi, the movie drew a good number of crowd having a general perception that Iranian movies represent social realities while having awakening aspects.
According to the young movie lover, “Our young generation has enough scope to learn from the film as it showed different social issues like drug addiction and diverse mentalities of people linked to criminal activities.”
The film, he thinks, will inspire the youths to build up an egalitarian society.
Iran Cultural Centre, Dhaka inaugurated the six-day Iranian film show on February 9, marking the 39th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in the country.
Another movie lover and also a student of Persian Language and Literature at DU, Rakibul Basher said, “The movies of our country can hardly create a positive trend as of now whereas the Iranian ones are trendy and often based is short plot giving emotional touches.”
Iranian films, he continues, illustrate different social and realistic issues which we generally do not get from the local Bangla films.
According to him, “Our Bangla films are made in fixed frame with traditional outlook. When we start watching a Bangla movie, we can easily understand where it’s heading towards and how it’ll end up. But Iranians films depict numerous themes and social values.”
Yet another movie lover Badol Mia, also a student of Persian Language and Literature at DU who came to watch the film, said Iranian films awaken humane qualities.
Manik, a student of Ahsanullah University who also attended the show, viewed, “Most of the Bangladeshi films are nothing but copy versions of Indian films that represent unrealistic and imaginary incidents.”
An official of Iran Cultural Centre, Dhaka and also the in-charge of the film show, Nannu Miah said, “On an average, some 100 viewers watch a film every day in two shows. We have already screened seven movies out of planned 11.”
According to him, “The movies having Bangla subtitles have drawn attention of greater number of movie lovers.”
Famous Iranian film ‘Bodyguard’, directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia, was screened on the first day of the carnival.
‘Sweet Taste of Imagination’, produced by Mohammad Ali Hossein-Nezhad, and ‘Trik’ by Iraj Ghaderi, with Bangla dubbing, were screened on February 10 while the audience enjoyed ‘Fourth Child’ by Vabid Mosiayan and ‘Earthquake’ by Sairus Alvando on February 11. ‘A Cube of Sugar’ by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi and ‘Golchehreh’ by Vahid Shamsaei, will be screened on February 13.
Two other movies – ‘Cling Up’ by Golam Hossain and ‘Today’ by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi -- will be screened on February 14, the last day of the festival.
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