Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Explained

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Native Name Lang:bn
Birth Date:1973 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nationality:Bangladeshi
Occupation:Filmmaker, producer, and script writer
Years Active:1999 – present[1]
Notable Works:Television (2012 film), Third Person Singular Number,, Ant Story
Children:Ilham Nusrat Farooki (b. 2022)

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (born 2 May 1973) is a Bangladeshi film director, producer and screenwriter who works in Bengali films.[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.[4] [5]

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[7] and direction in the early 2000. His debut film was Bachelor (2003) starring Humayun Faridi, Aupee Karim, Ferdous Ahmed, Shabnur and many others. Then his second film, a political satire Made In Bangladesh (2007) starring Zahid Hasan, Tariq Anam Khan, Shahiduzzaman Selim and others. His third film Third Person Singular Number starring Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Topu, Mosharraf Karim was premiered in Busan 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. After that he made a short film named Ok Cut. His fourth feature Television (2012) starring Chanchal Chowdhury, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Mosharraf Karim and Kazi Shahir Huda Rumi 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 International Film Festival. His fifth feature film Ant Story starring Sheena Chohan and Noor Imran Mithu was nominated for the Golden Goblet Awards and the Dubai International Film Festival's Muhr AsiaAfrica 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 starring international star Irrfan Khan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Parno Mittra, Rokeya Prachy and others.[8] [9] 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.[10] He is all set to release his upcoming ambitious project, a one-shot film, Saturday Afternoon starring Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Parambrata Chatterjee, Zahid Hasan, Eyad Hourani, Mamunur Rashid, a Bangladesh-Germany-Russia co-production inspired by the Dhaka terror attack incident of 1 July 2016 at the 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.

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 Djuice, Citycell, Banglalink, Ekhanei.com, Crown Cement, Grameenphone, Close-Up, Robi etc. His most popular commercial was for Meril Soap bar starring 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. Varietys 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.[15] [16] Together they have a daughter who has been named as Ilham Nusrat Farooki, born on 5 January 2022.[17]

Filmography

YearFilms NotesReferences
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
2007Made in Bangladesh Winner, Special Mention (Best Film) - Dhaka International Film Festival 2008
2009 Third Person Singular Number [18]
2010Ok, Cut
2012Television
2013Ant Story
2017
2019Shonibar Bikel
2021No Land's Man
A Burning Question
2023Something Like an Autobiography
  • A part of the ‘Ministry of Love’ 12-Film Anthology for Bangladeshi streaming platform Chorki.
[32]

Television

TitleNotes
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

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]

Notes and References

  1. News: bn:ছবি বানাতে টাকার চেয়ে বেশি দরকার মেধা : মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী . http://glitz.bdnews24.com/details.php?catry=3&showns=230 . bn . bdnews24.com . 16 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111101082340/http://glitz.bdnews24.com/details.php?catry=3&showns=230 . 1 November 2011 . dead .
  2. News: Celebrating Mostofa Sawar Farooki’s cinematic brilliance on his birthday. The Daily Star. 5 January 2022. en.
  3. Web site: Hoping for a revolution in films . theindependentdigital . 16 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120315071732/http://www.theindependentdigital.com/index.php?opt=view&page=25&date=2010-11-06 . 15 March 2012 .
  4. News: Freedom of storytelling key challenge for films here . 11 December 2023 . New Age . en.
  5. News: Farooki, Tisha’s 12 yrs of togetherness . 11 December 2023 . daily-sun . July 2022 . en.
  6. Karim . Elita . 2 November 2012 . Farooki's Classroom Secrets . Star Weekend Magazine.
  7. News: Sattar . Maher . 15 June 2014 . Bangladesh films try to shed Bollywood style . HE. Al Jazeera.
  8. Web site: 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. News: 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. Web site: WWW.BIFF.KRㅣ12-21 October, 2017. 업체명. www.biff.kr.
  13. News: Pritom . Nusrat Jahan . 11 September 2016 . Versatile Maria Nur . Daily Sun . Dhaka.
  14. Web site: Jury 2015 . Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
  15. News: Farooki and Tisha tying the knot . priyo.com . 22 July 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130904030951/http://news.priyo.com/story/2010/jul/15/farooki-and-tisha-tying-knot . 4 September 2013 .
  16. News: . Wedding bells for Farooki-Tisha. 18 July 2010 . . 10 November 2014.
  17. News: Tisha and Farooki blessed with a baby girl. 2022-01-05. Prothom Alo. en.
  18. News: Ershad Kamol. 16 March 2009. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki talks his style. The Daily Star. dead. 16 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023174447/http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/pod-details.php?nid=12. 23 October 2012.
  19. Ramachandran . Naman . 21 September 2013 . Bangladesh Turns on "Television" for Oscar Race . Variety.
  20. News: Farooki’s Television wins NETPAC award at Kolkata Film Festival . Risingbd.com . 14 December 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141225010616/http://www.risingbd.com/english/detailsnews.php?nssl=8e5d5b79456a8e2bc09e54e9e518a5f1&nttl=9677#.UonMUI2Qx69 . 25 December 2014 . dead .
  21. News: Eclectic mix of contenders for the Golden Goblet Award . Shanghai Daily . 9 June 2014.
  22. News: Pipra Bidya in Golden Goblet contention . The Daily Star . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140531040805/http://www.thedailystar.net/entertainment/pipra-bidya-in-golden-goblet-contention-26251 . 31 May 2014 . 10 June 2014 .
  23. News: Farooki’s Doob wins Kommersant Weekend Prize in Moscow. bdnews24.com.
  24. News: ‘Doob’ to participate in two more int’l film festivals . The Independent . Dhaka.
  25. News: 'Doob' selected for El Gouna Film Festival . The Daily Star . 10 September 2017.
  26. Web site: Cinema of the world. 10 November 2017.
  27. News: Parambrata’s ‘Shonibar Bikel’ screened in London and Munich . The Times of India. en. 2019-07-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20190719150529/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/parambratas-shonibar-bikel-screened-in-london-and-munich/articleshow/70128142.cms. 2019-07-19. live.
  28. News: Farooki's 'Shonibar Bikel' selected for Sydney Film Festival 2019 . Dhaka Tribune . 10 May 2019 . 2019-07-09.
  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. Web site: Ramachandran . Naman . 2023-08-03 . Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Leads ‘Ministry of Love’ 12-Film Anthology for Bangladesh Streamer Chorki (EXCLUSIVE) . 2023-09-10 . Variety . en-US.
  33. Ramachandran. Naman. 21 June 2021. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Sets ZEE5 Bangladesh Original Series ‘Ladies & Gentlemen’. Variety.
  34. News: Staff Correspondent . Chabial gears up to storm the small screen this Eid . 11 December 2023 . The Daily Star . 11 May 2017 . en.
  35. News: Chabial Eid Reunion to feature seven different stories . 11 December 2023 . Dhakatribune.
  36. News: ঈদে একুশে টিভিতে ছবিয়ালের সাত নাটক . 11 December 2023 . bdnews24 . bn.
  37. News: ফিরে আসছে ছবিয়ালের নাটক . 11 December 2023 . Prothomalo . 10 May 2017 . bn.
  38. News: ছবিয়ালের নাটক শুরু . 11 December 2023 . চ্যানেল আই অনলাইন . 10 May 2017.

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