Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
| Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | |
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.jpg) Farooki in 2016 | |
| Native name | মোস্তফা সরোয়ার ফারুকী |
| Born | Nakhalpara, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Occupation | Filmmaker, producer, and script writer |
| Years active | 1999 – present[1] |
| Spouse(s) | |
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a Bangladeshi film director, producer and screenwriter.[2] His 2012 feature Television was the closing film of Busan festival and won Grand Jury Prize in Asia Pacific Screen Award 2013. He founded filmmakers' movement called "Chabial".
Career
Farooki has set a new trend in terms of presentation[3] and direction in the early 2000. His first two films were Bachelor (2003) and Made in Bangladesh (2007). His third film Third Person Singular Number was premiered in Pusan International Film Festival (2009). It had its European premier in International Film Festival Rotterdam, It was also in the official competition 2009 Middle East International Film Festival. His fourth feature Television (2012) was the closing film of Busan International Film Festival and won the APSA Grand Jury Prize in 2013, as well as a further five international awards from Dubai, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Rome’s Asiatica Film Mediale, and Kolkata Film Festival. His fifth feature film Ant Story (2013) was nominated for the Golden Goblet Awards and the Dubai International Film Festival’s Muhr Asia-Africa Awards. In 2014 it was also in competition for APSA and both the Singapore and Kerala International Film Festivals. He finished his sixth feature film Doob: No Bed of Roses.[4][5] It was an official project of Film Bazar India 2013. It won Dubai Film Market Award and Kommersant Jury Prize at Moscow International Film Festival 2017.[6]
Farooki was appointed as an international jury of Asia Pacific Screen Award 2015.[7] He was also appointed as an international jury of Busan International Film Festival 2017.[8]
Farooki also makes commercials for local and international brands. His first commercial for Ekhanei.com written by Ishtiaque Hossain and starred in by Iresh Zaker and Maria Nur.[9]
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."[10] "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
Farooki is married to the actress Nusrat Imrose Tisha since 16 July 2010.[11][12]
Filmography
| Year | Films | Notes |
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| 2003 | Bachelor | - New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest - Third Eye IFF Mumbai - Asiaticafilmmediale Rome |
| 2007 | Made in Bangladesh | |
| 2009 | Third Person Singular Number[13] |
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| 2012 | Television |
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| 2013 | Ant Story[16] |
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| 2017 | Doob: No Bed of Roses |
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| 2017 | No Land's man |
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Chabial
Farooki is the founder of Chabial, a film makers club. These group of young film makers are used to be Farooki's assistant directors. They have 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.
References
- ↑ ছবি বানাতে টাকার চেয়ে বেশি দরকার মেধা : মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী. bdnews24.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 16 November 2012.
- ↑ "Hoping for a revolution in films". theindependentdigital. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
- ↑ Sattar, Maher (15 June 2014). "Bangladesh films try to shed Bollywood style". Al Jazeera.
- ↑ "Irrfan Khan's 'Doob: No Bed Of Roses' Is All Set For World Premiere At Shanghai Film Festival".
- ↑ Ramachandran, Naman (29 February 2016). "Irrfan Khan Climbs Into Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's 'No Bed of Roses'". Variety.
- ↑ "DOOB wins Kommersant Jury Prize at Moscow". 30 June 2017.
- ↑ Frater, Patrick (3 October 2015). "Busan's Kim Dong-ho to Head APSA Awards Jury". Variety.
- ↑ 업체명. "WWW.BIFF.KRㅣ12-21 October, 2017". www.biff.kr.
- ↑ Pritom, Nusrat Jahan (11 September 2016). "Versatile Maria Nur". Daily Sun. Dhaka.
- ↑ "Jury 2015". Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
- ↑ "Farooki and Tisha tying the knot". priyo.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
- ↑ "Wedding bells for Farooki-Tisha". The Daily Star. Dhaka: Transcom Group. 18 July 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ramachandran, Naman (21 September 2013). "Bangladesh Turns on "Television" for Oscar Race". Variety.
- ↑ "Farooki's Television wins NETPAC award at Kolkata Film Festival". Risingbd.com.
- ↑ "Farooki on fibbing, fantasy and box office". Archived from the original on 11 January 2015.
- ↑ "Eclectic mix of contenders for the Golden Goblet Award". Shanghai Daily. 9 June 2014.
- ↑ "Pipra Bidya in Golden Goblet contention". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ↑ "Farooki's Doob wins Kommersant Weekend Prize in Moscow". bdnews24.com.
- ↑ "Irrfan Khan's 'Doob: No Bed Of Roses' Is All Set For World Premiere At Shanghai Film Festival".
- 1 2 Independent, The. "'Doob' to participate in two more int'l film festivals".
- ↑ "'Doob' selected for El Gouna Film Festival". 10 September 2017.
- ↑ "Cinema of the world". 10 November 2017.
- ↑ Frater, Patrick (12 December 2014). "Jafar Panahi, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Among APSA-MPA Award Winners". Variety.
- ↑ "MPA APSA Fund awards $25,000". ScreenDaily.com. 12 December 2014.
- ↑ Ramachandran, Naman (24 November 2014). "'No Land's Man', 'Revolution' win India's Film Bazaar". Variety.
External links
- Ron Perlman, Sarah Gavron on East End fest jury - SCREEN DAILY
- 'Nymphomaniac' producer among filmmakers that will present 30 new projects - The Hollywood reporter
- Bangla director focuses on Kolkata and Nawaz for international film - Times of India
- Shanghai Film Fest: Iran, Bangladesh and Thailand Entries Included in Lineup - The Hollywood reporter
- Shanghai fest unveils competition line-up - Screen Daily
- Ant Story (Pipra Bidya) Dubai Review - The Hollywood reporter
- Omar wins Best Feature at APSA - Filmbiz Asia
- Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa S. Farooki’s Television received a warm response when it screened as the closing film of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) last week. - Screen Daily
- Neighbour’s Envy - The Indian Express
- Love thy neighbour. - The Hindu
- 'Television' Ushers in New Era for Bangladeshi Cinema. - Hollywood Reporter
- FAROOKI'S CLASSROOM SECRETS - The Daily Star
- Irrfan signs his next international film with Farooki - The Times of India
- Lights, Camera, Doob! - Daily Star