“Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale”, a documentary drama on the Bangladesh prime minister, is finally releasing after an extensive five-year-long collaboration between the Centre for Research and Information(CRI) and Applebox Films’ founder and director Rejaur Rahman Khan Piplu.
The journey has been “fascinating, a never-ending process and difficult to let go” for the filmmaker.
He describes, in a statement, this creation as “a riveting story of a daughter out of a tragic backdrop, the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman”.
The initial conversation started with quite an open-minded brief where the core idea was to present a captivating biography in the space of a documentary.
However, the director has finally created a tale with his “layered and independent interpretation” of Hasina’s thrills, anecdotes, tragedy and trauma.
“Dramatically, yet honestly” he portrays these chronicles along with Hasina – the daughter, the human.
The maker explained the process as “organically progressing with the uncanny and unusual sides of one of the most iconic figures of our time".
Hasina has been depicted as a person who actually connects the most with the history and inceptions of Bangladesh.
In an attempt to scan her journey associated with the genesis of Bangladesh, Piplu traversed the unexplored bits and pieces of her powerful, yet graceful life.
Her history might be a known one, but the filmmaker, as he said, “has scrutinised her noble and complex story back and forth via time and space, tracking back from the ‘70s, in the political and historical spectrum of the subcontinent; in a way that has yet not been experienced through visceral film-making.”
The filmmaker’s intention throughout the process was to convey the story in an authentic manner, unmarred by any influence, according to a bdnews24 report.
Instead what he created is a tale that has got, according to him, “immense appeal for a wider audience relating to Bangladesh sitting at home or abroad”.
Cinematographer Sadik Ahmed, Editor Navnita Sen and Music Director Debojyoti Mishra have contributed to the film making.
Directed by Rejaur Rahman Khan Piplu and produced by Centre for Research and Information (CRI), the film is expected to be released by the end of October.
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