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New Delhi:
Tanvir Mokammel, one of the top directors of Bangladesh's struggling
art cinema, has been as much of an artist as an activist taking up
the cause of peasants in villages. But when it came to espousing his
belief in non-violence as key component of democracy, he could not
but turn to Mahatma Gandhi.
The director of five nationally and international acclaimed feature
films invoked the message of nonviolence propagated by the Mahatma
at an international seminar in Australia earlier this month.
The seminar "Role of Cinema in the Process of Conflict Resolution"
organised by Sydney University was held earlier this month.
Tanvir Mokammel, film-maker and author of books studied English
literature in Dhaka University and worked as a left-wing journalist
and later as an activist to organize landless peasants in rural
Bangladesh.
Always a film enthusiast, Tanvir
Mokammel has made five full-length feature films and eleven
documentaries. Some of his films have received national and
international awards. His feature films are “The River Named
Modhumoti” ,“Quiet Flows the River Chitra” ,“A Tree Without
Roots”(LALSALU) ,“Lalon” and “The Sister”. Tanvir Mokammel’s
prominent documentaries are; “The Unknown Bard”, “Teardrops of
Karnaphuli”, “Riders to the Sunderbans”, “A Tale of the Jamuna
River”, “The Garment Girls of Bangladesh”, “The Promised Land”,
“Tajuddin Ahmad :An Unsung Hero”and “Images and Impressions”.
Also a prolific writer, Tanvir Mokammel has written articles in
newspapers, poems and short stories. Tanvir Mokammel’s important
books are “A Brief History of World Cinema”, “The Art of Cinema”,
“Charlie Chaplin: Conquests of the Vagabond”, “Syed Waliullah,
Sisyphus and Quest of Tradition in Novel” (a literary criticism),
“Grundtvig and Folk Education”, a book on the alternative
educational ideas and translation of Maxim Gorky’s play “The Lower
Depth”.
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