Swopnodanay | |||||
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Music: | Bappa Mazumder | ||||
Cinematography: | Mahfuzur Rahman Khan | ||||
Editing: | Junaid Halim | ||||
Studio: | Impress Telefilm Limited | ||||
Runtime: | 84 minutes | ||||
Country: | Bangladesh | ||||
Language: | Bengali |
Swopnodanay (Bengali: স্বপ্নডানায়, On the Wings of Dreams) is a 2007 Bengali drama film directed and co-written by Golam Rabbany Biplob. It was Bangladesh's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not nominated.[1] [2]
The story of the movie revolves around a village in Naogaon district. The entire movie's dialogues are in the regional language of Naogaon. The story begins with a hawker in a village market. People call him Fazlu Kabiraj. In fact, he sells ointment in the market. His companion is his ten-year-old son Ratan. One day after the haat, Fazlu goes to a second-hand shop to buy pants for Ratan. After buying the pants he finds some foreign notes in his pocket. What will be the value of this note, he thinks, his family dreams. When he talks to his childhood friend Siraj Member about this, he get greedy. Fazlu Kabiraj's life changed in his dream of owning money, relations with close people deteriorated.[3]
Best Director Asian New Talent Competition10th Shanghai International Film Festival, 2007
Silver Peacock 38th International Film Festival of India-GOA, 2007