Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bengali: মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী; born 2 May 1973) is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and film producer.[2] Farooki is considered one of the leading figures to bring modernism/realism in Bangladeshi cinema.[according to whom?] His works often switch between a real and quasi-real world. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki could be the next South-east Asian filmmaker to break out", The Hollywood Reporter wrote in the review of his film Television. Variety's Jay Weissberg wrote. "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a key exemplar of Bangladeshi new wave cinema movement". He is also the pioneer of an avant-garde filmmakers' movement called "Chabial". His 2012 feature Television was the closing film of Busan festival and won Grand Jury Prize in Asia Pacific Screen Award 2013 in addition to 5 more international awards from Dubai, Jogja-Indonesia, Asiatica-Roma, and Kolkata. He has just premiered his sixth feature film titled Doob: No Bed of Roses
Career[edit]
He has set a new trend in terms of presentation[4] and direction in the early 2000. His first two films, which he considers to be an educational effort, were Bachelor (2003) and Made in Bangladesh (2007). Bachelor was a big hit among the youth and opened up a new road for young cinema. His third film Third Person Singular Number was premiered in Pusan International Film Festival (2009). It had its European premier in International Film Festival Rotterdam, It was also in the official competition 2009 Middle East International Film Festival (Abu Dhabi). Farooki made quite a recognizable mark for him with his fourth feature Television (2012) which was the closing film of Busan International Film Festival and won the APSA Grand Jury Prize in 2013, as well as a further five international awards from Dubai, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Rome’s Asiatica Film Mediale, and Kolkata Film Festival. His fifth feature film Ant Story (2013) was nominated for the Golden Goblet Awards and the Dubai International Film Festival’s Muhr Asia-Africa Awards. In 2014 it was also in competition for APSA and both the Singapore and Kerala International Film Festivals. Farooki has been appointed as an international jury of Asia Pacific Screen Award 2015.[5]He is also appointed as an international jury of Busan International Film Festival 2017.[6] Farooki has finished his sixth feature film Doob: No Bed of Roses.[7] Principal photography has began from March 20, 2016. The film starts Irrfan Khan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Parno Mitra and others. Doob (No Bed of Roses) was an official project of Film Bazar India 2013 and Won Dubai Film Market award there. It has won Kommersant Jury Prize at Moscow International Film Festival 2017. [8] Farooki also makes commercials for various local and international brands.[9] Out of his many television commercials he is known best for his first TVC for Ekhanei.com written by Ishtiaque Hossain and starred in by Iresh Zaker and Maria Nur
Cinematic style[edit]
Farooki's body of work address such themes as middle class angst, urban youth romance, deception-hypocrisy and frailty of individual, frustration about the confines of one's culture and conservative Muslim concepts of guilt and redemption.[original research?]
Brisbane's Asia Pacific Screen Awards says of his work, "His films often deal with the way individuals free themselves from the limitations placed on them by their identity, economic circumstances and belief systems. To counter the deprivation they face in real life, his characters often seem to create a fantasy world around them, lending elements of magical realism to Farooki's signature style
Personal life[edit]
Farooki is married to Nusrat Imrose Tisha since 16 July 2010
Filmography[edit]
| Year | Films | Notes |
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| 2003 | Bachelor | - New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest - Third Eye IFF Mumbai - Asiaticafilmmediale Rome |
| 2007 | Made in Bangladesh | |
| 2009 | Third Person Singular Number[14] |
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| 2012 | Television |
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| 2013 | Ant Story[17] |
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| 2017 | Doob: No Bed of Roses |
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Chabial[edit]
Farooki is the founder of Chabial, a film makers club. These group of young film makers are used to be Farooki's assistant directors. They have then used local cable television networks as a platform to master their hands in story telling and created an audience for the stories they tell. Their works have managed to connect primarily with the youth in urban and suburban parts of the Bangladeshi society for the realism in story topics and realism in execution.
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