Matir Pahar
Matir Pahar is a 1959 Bengali film. The film was directed by Mohiuddin Ahmad. This was the third film made in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).[1]
Cast
[edit]- Sumita Devi
- Khan Ataur Rahman
- Mesbah Shahjahan
Response
[edit]Film critic Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, when asked in 2000 by the magazine Cinemaya to name the top ten films from Bangladesh, named Matir Pahar, made when the country was still East Pakistan, as one of the top twelve.[2]
According to critic Alamgir Kabir, Matir Pahar "failed miserably" at the box office, unable to compete with films made in India and Lahore with established stars.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "One Sultana Zamal". Dainik Janakantha. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- ^ Muztaba Ahmed Zamal (Winter 2000). "National Ten Best Films". Cinemaya. Vol. 50. p. 13.
- ^ Hoek, Lotte (2014). "Cross-wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive". BioScope. 5 (2): 111. doi:10.1177/0974927614547989. S2CID 154148790.
External links
[edit]- Matir Pahar at IMDb