‘Mayar Jonjal’ wins Best Film Award at Rainbow Film Fest

Bangladesh-India joint production ‘Mayar Jonjal (Debris of Desire)’ starring Aupee Karim has won the Best Film Award at the 23rd Rainbow Film Festival in London.

The film is directed by Indranil Chowdhury.

Another Bangladeshi film ‘Chandrabati Kotha’ directed by N Rashed Chowdhury has also received a Special Rainbow Film Society Mention.

The news was confirmed through the official website of the festival.

‘Mayar Janjal’ had its world premiere at International Film Festival in China in 2020. In the same year, the film was invited to the Asian Perspectives category at the 15th edition of the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia. The film also won the Best South Asian Feature Film award in the Arthouse Asia Film Festival last year.

The story of the film revolves around a petty criminal, who loves a sex worker and wants to run away with her savings, meets a laid-off factory worker who is desperate to stop his wife from working as a housemaid.

N Rashed Chowdhury’s ‘Chandrabati Kotha’ is set against the backdrop of the mid-16th century East Bengal and inspired by the life of Bengal’s first feminist poet Chandrabati.

It is adapted from the ballads found in the Mymensingha Geetika and portrays the golden age of medieval Bengali literature.

Chandrabati, who learned everything from her father, penned her ‘Ramayana’ in Pala style (long ballads). Many of these poems have served as the foundation for a variety of Bangladeshi folklore.

The Rainbow Film festival started at May 29 and ended on June 5.