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Director Goutam Ghose has started filming his next documentary feature ‘Kolkatay Bangabandhu’ at the Maulana Azad College and the Baker Hostel in Kolkata on Monday.
Kolkata had a significant role Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s life. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman spent four years in Kolkata from 1942 to 1944 as a student at Islamia College (later named Maulana Azad College), where he developed his captivating personality.
Bangabandhu himself mentioned about his time in Kolkata in his memoirs. His wrote about his days at Maulana Azad College, Baker Hostel, his proximity to Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bengal’s the last prime minister, his days at the Park Circus and Alimuddin Street, his community involvement during the Great Kolkata Killings of 1946 and the historic speech at the Brigade Ground after the independence of Bangladesh.
Recently, a tripartite MoU was signed at the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission between Goutam Ghose.
According to Millenniumpost, The documentary will cover Mujib’s birthplace Tungipara in Bangladesh, his Dhanmondi residence in Dhaka, interviews of many eminent personalities in India and Bangladesh, and several historic documents.
Goutam Ghose, at a press conference at Maulana Azad College, got nostalgic as he reminisced about being awestruck as a 22-year-old witnessing Bangabandhu delivering the fiery speech at the Brigade grounds, in 1972. Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh in Kolkata Toufique Hasan, Vice President of Friends of Bangladesh Satyam Roychowdhury, and Principal of Maulana Azad College Dr Subhasis Dutta were also present at the press conference.
Ghose said, ‘I stood amidst a multitude of people as I looked at Bangabandhu from far away, but his deep, brave voice touched me inexplicably. Fifty years later today, I feel privileged to have got the opportunity to make a documentary on the greatest Bengali of all times.’
Satyam Roychowdhury said, “While working on my literary tribute Bangabandhu For You, I came to know many facts about Mujibur Rahman’s relationship with Kolkata. The PM of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has also expressed her wish quite a few times that a film on Mujib’s days in Kolkata be made. I am very happy that finally this film is being made, and by none other than a maestro like Goutam Ghose.’ Toufique Hasan too expressed his joy, “This work was long pending, since we began celebrating the birth centenary of Bangabandhu in 2020. But finally the shooting has begun, and I feel ecstatic that we will get to watch a brilliant film.”
