Ahmad Bashir’s Book "Films of Bangladesh: Country, Time and Art Form (2023)” was launched at Alliance Française de Dhaka on Friday. A discussion followed the book launch was held. Film critic Anupam Hayat, researcher Kazal Rashid Shahin, film researcher Mir Shamsul Alam Baboo, film teacher Shakila Parveen, and editor Foysal Ahmed participated in the discussion.
Ahmad Bashir is a contemporary novelist and short story writer of Bangladesh. He published five novels and a dozen short-story collections, as well as literary criticism and children's books during his career. His fictions are distinguished by its attention to the concerns, passions, and suffering of middle class and marginal people of the country.
His first book of short stories, “Anno Patabhumi” (Another Background) was published in 1981, which received the Humayun Kadir Literature Award of that year. In 1987, his first novel was published in the monthly magazine of the Bangla Academy, the national institution for literature, art and science.
In 1987, the Bangla Academy published his translation book “Around the World in Eighty Days”, the world-famous novel of French novelist Jule Verne, which is re-published recently (2024) by another famous publisher.
Other famous books are: Tithidor (A Time for Union_2016), Mudrarakhhash (The Demon of Money_2019), Trishanku (Nowhere to go - 2024), Films of Bangladesh: Country, Time and Art Form’ (2023).
The book "Films of Bangladesh: Country, Time and Art Form’ (2023)" is his recently published book where he has attempted to analyze the influence of film in shaping the cultural development of Bangladesh.This intellectual inquiry includes the chronological development of the country's film genre, the social context that the media has captured in the last few decades, and their attempt to create the national integrity and value system as a whole.
