Urdu-speakers show film in the camps
- Author: sr
- Filed under: Bihari
Mar 16,2008
The Association of the Young Generation of the Urdu-speaking Community ( AYGUSC) together with “Chalachitranachal” are holding public viewings of Swapnabhumi - The Promised Land in the “bihari camps” throughout Bangladesh. The first shows were held on Friday (14th) in Mymensingh. Photos are from two different showings there. My thanks go to Sarwar, Nahar, Khalid, Hasan and many others for taking this initiative to take our documentary to the very community the film depicts. There are voices in Bangladesh who are not swallowing the usual story and want change, and this documentary is part of that.
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Would love to know how the community react to the movie. The reaction of the younger Bangladesh born generation must be different from those old east Pakistan Generation.
Yes key question Rumi. The sample is not large enough yet but initial reactions can be summarised thus:
1. It was held at the bar council. Some members did not attend the showing labelling the documentary “Pakistani.” Organisers had to show correspondence and paperwork before the show could get underway.
2. There was negative feedback from urdu-speaking women who felt that the documentary showed too much about Bengali suffering
3. AYGUSC activists felt that they (the women) did not understand the film.
4. There was extremely positive feedback from other sections of viewers ( urdu-speakers) who felt that the film needed wide dissemination and that “everyone should see it.”
More reactions as they come in.
men watching indoors sitting in seats with arm-rests while women and children sit outdoors on plastic seating…may not mean much and I dont know the circumstances but……..just an observation…anyways, i would have much prefeered the open air viweing-:)
Yes appears like blatant cost cutting and downright sexism. I will get to the bottom of it….
The photo doesn’t show the blokes. They are on the other side. This open air thing was in the camps. The bar council event was far from the camps….and so you only got men folk attending.
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