Khan Ataur Rahman

When two people from two feuding families fall in love with each other, they decide to end the rivalry and unite their family members.

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Sujan Sakhi is a 1994 Bangladeshi film starring Salman Shah and Shabnur. It became one of the top grossers of Dhallywood in 1994. It was a box-office hit

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A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.

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Bahana is a 1965 Indian Urdu film directed by Zahir Raihan under the banners Saregama. The film (Bahana), starring Sajjan, Meena Kumari, Anwar, Kumar, Pramila, Azurie, Sheela Vaz, was released in theatres in 1965. The film’s songs are composed by Madan Mohan Kohli and lyrics written by Rajendra Krishan.

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Sangam is a Pakistani Urdu film released in 1964, directed by Zahir Raihan starring Rosy Samad, Khalil, Haroon Rashid and Sumita Devi. This is the first full-length colour movie made in entire Pakistan. This was the fourth film by Zahir Raihan (1935-1972) who later went on to direct more films in Urdu and Bengali during the 1960s. Zahir Raihan became one of the most important filmmakers of East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh in 1971. Although Sangam was an Urdu film, but most of the cast, playback artistes and crew were from the Bengali-speaking Eastern province.

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The story is about a girl who grows up almost like an orphan in a joint family of two brothers and their families. She has lost her mother (a sister of the brothers) in childhood and her father is a habitual gambler with a bad luck. She develops romance with one of the two cousins in the house.

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The emergence of the educated middle-class. Shawkat’s life as a bohemian artist perfectly illustrates the life of an artist in Dhaka during the 60s. When Shawkat’s father loses his job, and eventually dies, the reality of living in a capitalist society as an artist dawns on him

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