Memorial lecture, discussion to remember Tareque Masud

Today marks the 10th death anniversary of celebrated filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Ashfaque Munier, popularly known as Mishuk Munier.

Marking the day, the Moviyana Film Society and the Tareque Masud Memorial Trust will jointly organise an event titled ‘Tareque Masud Memorial Lecture 2021’ with the theme ‘Ethnicity, Film and the Third World’.

Academic-writer-film theorist Sanjay Mukherjee will deliver his speech in this event.

Tareque’s widow and American-born producer-director Katherine Masud, Sanjay Mukherjee, chairman of the Tareque Masud Memorial Trust and Moviyana Film Society’s President Belayat Hossain Mamun will participate in the discussion. Filmmakers Nahid Masud and Prasun Rahman will also participate in the discussion. The event will be hosted by Adri Hridoyesh, General Secretary of the Moviyana Film Society.

The event will be held online due to the situation caused by the ongoing pandemic. It will be broadcast live on the Facebook page of Moviyana Film Society tonight at 8:30pm.

Tareque Masud was involved in the film society movement in the late 1970s. In 1989, he directed his debut film, ‘Adam Surat’.

His critically acclaimed film ‘Matir Moyna’ won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and went on to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

On August 13, 2011, the short-lived genius died in a fatal road crash along with media personality Mishuk Munier, film production crews Wasim and Jamal and microbus driver Mostafizur Rahman, while returning from the set of his unfinished film ‘Kagojer Phul.’