Noman Sabit: Two-days international film festival to mark the 93rd birthday of Bengali cinema legend Suchitra Sen has started in New York. Actor and Member of Parliament Ferdous Ahmed officially opened the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in New York on Saturday (April 20) morning local time.
Film screening starts at 11 am on Saturday. Popular actors, actresses and invited guests from Bangladesh and West Bengal of India sat together and enjoyed various films. It is said that 39 films from Bangladesh and India will be screened for free in this two-day festival. The two-day international film festival is organized by an organization called Suchitra Sen Memorial, USA.
The organizers said that the two-day festival was organized on the occasion of the 93rd birthday of Suchitra Sen, a girl from Pabna district of Bangladesh, to spread the contribution of Bengali cinema to the world. The main objective of this event is to convey Suchitra Sen’s contribution to Bengali culture and cinema to the new generation of people. 409 films from different countries including India and Bangladesh were submitted for exhibition, but 39 films were selected for exhibition through the jury. The organizers said that there is no entry fee for this festival.
Apart from actor and parliament member Ferdous Ahmed, Chanchal Chowdhury, Bandhan, Joy, India’s Rituparna Sen, Reshmi Mitra and more than a hundred actors and actresses, directors and movie lovers were present at this festival on April 20.
It should be noted that April 6 was Suchitra Sen’s birthday. He was born on this day in 1931 in Pabna district. Suchitra was the fifth of nine siblings. The children of the house are called Rangadi. Parents named Rama. Director Sukumar Dasgupta’s assistant Nitish Roy replaced it with Suchitra. But his name was Krishna Dasgupta in the book at Mahakali Pathshala in Pabna. After completing her schooling at Mahakali Pathshala, Suchitra Sen studied in the local Pabna Girls’ School till Class Nine.
Born in an upper middle-class family, Suchitra Sen left her father Karunamay Pabna home, job, and family to India a few months before partition in 1947.
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