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Bangladesh is the eighth-most populated country in the world with almost 2.2% of the world's population. According to the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects^[3], the population stood at 162,951,560 in 2016.

Bangladesh (Previously East Pakistan between 1947 and 1971 and East Bengal before 1947) is largely ethnically homogeneous, and its name derives from the Bengali ethno-linguistic group which comprises 98% of the population. The Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sylhet, Mymensingh and North Bengal divisions are home to diverse indigenous peoples. There are many dialects of Bengali spoken throughout the region. The dialect spoken by those in Chittagong and Sylhet are particularly distinctive. The population is estimated at 163 million (2016^[3]). About 89% of Bangladeshis are Muslims, followed by Hindus (10.7%), Buddhists (0.6%) and Christians (0.4%) and others.

Bangladesh has the one of the highest population density in the world. The total fertility rate (TFR) has been reduced by more than two thirds since Independence. Current TFR in Bangladesh is 2.1 which means that women have 2.1 children on average in their lifetime. At this TFR and without migration, country's population will eventually be neither growing nor shrinking, once the top of its age pyramid fills in.^[4]

• 1Population
• 2Vital statistics
• 3Health

Population[edit]

The 2016 total population was 162,951,560 which makes Bangladesh the eighth-most populous country in the world.

Census[edit]

p=provisional figure

UN estimates^[6][edit]

Structure of the population[edit]

^[7][8]

Structure of the population (15 March 2011) (Census) :

Structure of the population (DHS 2014) Male: 37 672, Female: 39 641, Total: 77 313 :

Other sources[edit]

The following table lists various recent estimates of the population.

According to the OECD/World Bank population in Bangladesh increased from 1990 to 2008 with 44 million and 38% growth in population compared to 34% growth in India and 54% growth in Pakistan. The annual population growth 2007-2008 was 1.4% compared to India 1.35%, Pakistan 2.2%, Dem. Rep. of Congo 2.9%, Tanzania 2.9%, Syria 3.5% or Yemen 4.0%. According to the OECD/World Bank population statistics between 1990-2008 the world populationgrowth was 27% and 1,423 million persons.^[14]

Population growth rate[edit]

Bangladesh had high rates of population growth in the 1960s and 1970s. Since then however it has seen significant reduction in its total fertility rate. Over a period of three decades it dropped from almost 7 to 2.4 in 2005-2010.^[6]

Gender ratio[edit]

Urban and rural[edit]

The sprawling mega-city of Dhaka has a huge population, but the majority of the people nonetheless still live in villages in rural areas.

Urban population: 27% of total population (2009 est.)

Rate of urbanization: 3.5% annual rate of change (2005-2010 est.)

Bangladesh is considered an urban country based on their population density (hrsa.gov)

Population Density[edit]

Based on the CIA World Fact Book 2012 figures for population (161,083,804) and land area (130,168 km²), Bangladesh has the highest population density among large countries, 1,237.51 persons per square kilometer, and 12th overall, when small countries and city-states are included.^[16]

Vital statistics[edit]

Births and deaths ^[6][edit]

Sample Vital Registration System[edit]

^[17]ref>http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/vitstats/serATab3.pdf</ref>

Fertility[edit]

Total Fertility Rate (TFR):^[18]

Total fertility rate by divisions[edit]

Birth and Death rate[edit]

Fertility Rate (The Demographic Health Survey)[edit]

^[19]Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and CBR (Crude Birth Rate):

Health[edit]

Life expectancy at birth[edit]

Total population: 72.7 years (2018)^[20]

Male: 71.1 years

Female: 74.4 years

Source: UN World Population Prospects^[21]

HIV/AIDS[edit]

Prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (adults, 102nd in world, 2001 est.); 0.01% (2014 est.)

People living with HIV/AIDS: 12,000 (85th in world, 2007 est.)

Deaths: fewer than 500 (87th in world, 2007 est.); about 700 (2014 est.).

Major infectious diseases[edit]

Degree of risk: high

Food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever

Vectorborne diseases: dengue fever and malaria are high risks in some locations

Water contact disease: leptospirosis

Animal contact disease: rabies (2005)

Ethnic groups[edit]

The vast majority (about 98.5%) of Bangladeshis are of the Bengali ethno-linguistic group. This group also spans the neighboring Indian province of West Bengal. Minority ethnic groups include Meitei, Tripura, Marma, Tanchangya, Barua, Khasi, Santhals, Chakma, Garo, Biharis, Oraons, Mundas and Rohingyas.

Communities of Persian and Iranic peoples mainly reside in the city of Chittagong and are the descendants of migrants that immigrated during the Pakistani dominion over Bangladesh, and also from the British Partition of 1947. Some are descendants of the Persian settlers during the medieval era of the Bengal Sultanate, most Iranic peoples living in Chittagong are either mainly or fully integrated into Bengali society, and have even influenced the Chittagonian language as a whole.^[23][24][25]

Biharis are Urdu-speaking, non-Bengalis who emigrated from the state of Bihar and other parts of northern India during the 1947 partition. They are concentrated in the Dhaka and Rangpur areas and number some 300,000.^[26][27] In the 1971 independence war many of them sided with Pakistan, as they stood to lose their positions in the upper levels of society.^[28] Hundreds of thousands went to Pakistan and those that remained were interned in refugee camps. Their population declined from about 1 million in 1971 to 600,000 in the late 1980s.^[28]Refugees International has called them a 'neglected and stateless' people as they are denied citizenship by the governments of Bangladesh and Pakistan.^[29] As nearly 40 years has passed, two generations of Biharis have been born in these camps. Biharis were granted Bangladeshi citizenship and voting rights in 2008.^[30]

Bangladesh's tribal population was enumerated at 897,828 in the 1981 census.^[28] These tribes are concentrated in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and around Mymensingh, Sylhet, and Rajshahi. They are of Sino-Tibetan descent and differ markedly in their social customs, religion, language and level of development. They speak Tibeto-Burman languages and most are Buddhist or Hindu.^[28] The four largest tribes are Chakmas, Marmas, Tipperas, Tanchangya, and Mros. Smaller groups include the Santals in Rajshahi and Dinajpur, and Khasis, Garos, and Khajons in Mymensingh and Sylhet regions.^[28]

There are small communities of Meitei people in the Sylhet district, which is close to the Meitei homeland across the border in Manipur, India.

There is a small population of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar near the border in the southeast. There are 28,000 living in two UN refugee camps in Cox's Bazar as well as some 200,000 'unregistered people of concern' living outside of the camps.^[31]The refugee crisis originated in the early 1990s when the first wave numbering some 250,000 of the predominantly Muslim ethnic group fled persecution from their home in Rakhaine—Myanmar's western-most state. Bangladesh seeks to repatriate the refugees back to Myanmar.^[32]

Language[edit]

• Official language: Bengali (also known as Bangla)
• Other languages often considered dialects of Bengali: Chittagonian, Sylheti, Rohingya, Tangchangya, Chakma, and Rangpuri.^[33]
• Other Indic languages: Bishnupriya Manipuri, Assamese, various Bihari languages
• Tibeto-Burman languages: A'Tong, Chak, Koch, Garo, Megam, Meitei Manipuri, Mizo, Mru, Pangkhua, Rakhine/Marma, Kok Borok, Riang, Tippera, Usoi, various Chin languages^[33]
• Austroasiatic languages: Khasi, Koda, Mundari, Pnar, Santali, War^[33]
• Dravidian languages: Kurukh^[33]
• Other languages: English (spoken and known widely in upper-class & politics), Arabic( sometimes spoken and known by many Muslims, due to Islam being the primary religion), Hindi/Urdu(understood by some, and spoken by Biharis)

Religion[edit]

Population trends for major religious groups in Bangladesh (1951–2011)

Genetics[edit]

Bangladesh has the world's highest frequency of the M form of mitochondrial DNA. This genetic variant spans many continents, and is the single most common mtDNA haplogroup in Asia.^[37] In Bangladesh it represents about 83% of maternal lineages.^[38]

Education[edit]

Bangladesh has a literacy rate of 72.9 percent as of 2018. 75.7 percent for males and 70.09 percent for females.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

• This article incorporates public domain material from the CIA World Factbook document '2011 edition'. This is also viewable at 'Bangladesh 2011'. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
• This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department of State website https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/ (U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets).

When I decided to list 20 best Bengali movies which you should definitely watch, I realized it wasn’t going to be as easy as I initially thought. The list below features a few that would be public choices and also a few that just maybe I like. However, stories behind these films will tell you something, and I am sure you will feel the same once watched.

Bengali movies have a greatly rich history. Bengali movies are known for their hard-hitting storylines, characters, and dialogues. Some movies, over time, represent themselves in memories of many people as classics. These movies cannot be forgotten and regularly remind me, and I am sure, many others of the beauty of story-telling. I have tried to compile a list of 20 best Bengali movies you should definitely watch. Because these movies can’t be given a miss!

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Best Bengali Movies You Should Definitely Watch Before You Die

20. The Japanese Wife (2010)

source: www.wikipedia.org

Director: Aparna Sen

Writer: Kunal Basu (Story), Aparna Sen (Screenplay)

Stars: Rahul Bose, Raima Sen, Chigusa Takaku, Moushumi Chatterjee, Rudranil Ghosh

The Japanese Wife is in English, Japanese and Bengali. The story revolves around a young Bengali village school teacher (Rahul Bose) marrying his Japanese pen friend (Chigusa Takaku) over letters and remaining true and loyal to her throughout his life, while actually never meeting her. 637 letters, 4 phone calls, 17 years of marriage, but they still haven’t met-what can be a more beautiful love story? The shooting locations where the movie shoot is Kolkata and Sundarbans in Bengal and the Japanese cities of Yokohama and Tsukuba, Ibaraki. The movie received positive to very positive reviews from critics in India. Rahul Bose is in stellar form with his village boy look and his Bangla Angrezi. Raima Sen is pleasant as the reserved, shy widow and Moushumi Chatterjee is a disclosure.

19. Antaheen (2009)

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Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

Writer: Shyamal Sengupta

Stars: Radhika Apte, Rahul Bose, Mita Vashisth, Aparna Sen, Sharmila Tagore

Antaheen (English: The Endless Wait) is one of the modern Bengali cinema’s best movies. The movie is an analysis of modern society, where some relationships are broken beyond repair and some relations are never meant to be, as they are just bonds created over the internet. Three parallel stories run throughout the movie, with the principal protagonists meeting the other characters throughout the movie. Antaheen went on to win the National Award for Best Film in 2009. The film was shot on a limited budget on location in Kolkata. Rahul Bose and Sharmila Tagore worked on the film for free and composer Shantanu Moitra waived his fee for composing the film’s music.

18. Ashani Sanket (1973)

source: www.wikipedia.org

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writer: Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhay

Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Bobita, Sandhya Roy, Anil Ganguly, Debatosh Ghosh

Ashani Sanket aka Distant Thunder is a movie that is featured in The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made has to make it to this list. The film is set in a village in the Indian province of Bengal during World War II, and examines the effect of the Great Famine of 1943 on the villages of Bengal through the eyes of a young Brahmin doctor-teacher, Gangacharan, and his wife, Anaga. Ray shows the human scale of a cataclysmic event that killed more than 3 million people. The movie open at a slow pace that reflects the rhythms of village life, but gradually shows the breakdown of traditional village standard under the pressure of hunger and starvation.

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17. Antarjali Jatra (1987)

Director: Gautam Ghose

Writer: Kamal Kumar Majumdar

Stars: Shatrughan Sinha, Basanta Choudhury, Promode Ganguly, Shampa Ghosh, Rabi Ghosh

Antarjali Jatra was derived from a novel named “Mahayatra” by Kamal Kumar Majumdar. It documents the institution of Kulin Brahmin polygamy in nineteenth century Bengal. The movie got National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali in 1988. The movie traces the journey of a young maiden who, to save the graces of the family, was married off to an extremely old man on his deathbed, and how, she finds a company in a “dome”—a man responsible for creating at the burning ghats. The sheer brilliance with which Ghose weaves a tale sans much dialogue or action is worth watching. Plus, Ghose’s music lends an added dimension to the whole film.

16. Neel Akasher Neechey (1959)

source: tanmon12.blogspot.com

Director: Mrinal Sen

Writer: Padmabibhushan Mahadevi Verma, Mrinal Sen (Screen Play)

Stars: Kali Banerjee, Manju Dey, Bikash Roy, Ajit Chatterjee, Smriti Biswas, Suruchi Sengupta

Set in the background of the last days of the British Raj in Calcutta, the film explores the lives of a number of characters, including the platonic relationship between an immigrant Chinese wage worker, Wang Lu, and the main female character called Basanti. The film had overt political overtones and was the first film to be banned by the Government of India. The ban was effective for two years.

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15. Teen Kanya (1961)

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writer: Satyajit Ray (screenplay), Rabindranath Tagore(stories)

Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Chandana Banerjee, Kumar Roy, Anil Banerjee

The title means “Three Girls”, and the film’s original Indian release contained three stories. However, the international release of the film contained only two stories, missing out the second (“Monihara: The Lost Jewels”). However, there are now DVD versions available that contain all three films. The story of three women is nicely portrayed, Nanda a man from Kolkata was posted as postmaster in malaria infested village where Ratan a small Orphan looks after him. The second story is about a student, Amulya, who returns to his village after finishing his exams.

14. Aranyer Din Raati (1970)

source: www.wikipedia.org

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writers: Sunil Gangopadhyay (original story), Satyajit Ray (screenplay)

Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Tagore, Rabi Ghosh, Subhendu Chatterjee

Aranyer Din Raati (English: Days and Nights in the Forest) was one of the earliest films to employ the literary technique of the carnivalesque. The critics praised it heavily worldwide. Ray’s work at its best, like this, has an extraordinary rightness in every aspect of its selection and presentation – the timing, performance, cutting, music – which seem to place it beyond discussion.In this movie, A group of four middle-class workers takes the week off to have a holiday. When they get to the forest, they meet up with another group and spend their time flirting with women. The New York Times described the film as a rare, wistful movie that somehow proves it’s good to be alive.

13. Bhooter Bhabishyat (2012)

Director: Anik Dutta

Writer: Anik Dutta, Deb Roy

Stars: Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Parambrata Chatterjee, Paran Bandopadhyay, Swastika Mukherjee

Bhooter Bhabishyat (English: Future of the past or future of ghost) became one of the biggest hits of 2012 among the Bengali movies. It is actually a film with a supernatural element. If you are a fan of black comedy, then Bhooter Bhabishyat is the perfect film for you. It is a story of Ghost and meant to be a comic entertainer. The story revolves around a haunted house which is being pulled down and being replaced with a swanky shopping mall. Apparently, the ghosts who belong to different era consider this as their home so what happens later on shapes the rest of the story.

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12. Jukti Takko Ar Gappo (1974)

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Director: Ritwik Ghatak

Writer: Ritwik Ghatak

Stars: Tripti Mitra, Ritwik Ghatak, Ritaban Ghatak, Shaonli Mitra, Utpal Dutt

Jukti Takko Ar Gappo (English: Reason, Debate and a Story) was Ritwik Ghatak’s last movie. The movie is considered technically superior to other films of that era due to its camera work. The film resolves all the difficulty and difference which arose throughout his career as a film director and as an IPTA member. The movie doesn’t portray anything as such but talks about the socio-political standing of Bengal, the issues of the Bengali middle-class people and the complex ideas related to a nation-state. It’s more like an autobiography of Ghatak and has Ritwik Ghatak himself in the lead role. If you’re interested in films or in the broader aspect of film studies, then you cannot miss out on this film. The movie won National Award’s Rajat Kamal Award for best story in 1974.

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11. The Feluda Series

The series is about an Indian detective of Bengali origin. The Feluda series includes many best Bengali movies like Baksho Rahashya, Kailashey Kelenkari, Bombaiyer Bombete, Joi Baba Felunath, Royal Bengal Rahasya, Sonar Kella, Tintorettor Jishu, Doorbeen and many others. Two of Feluda’s stories were made into films by Ray. It’s difficult to forget Soumitra Chatterjee’s fantastic portrayal of Feluda, and the equally lovable characters Topshe and Lalmohan Babu. Sonar Kella is by far the most memorable film of the series, shot in the beautiful locales of Rajasthan.

Download:Baksho Rahashya, Joi Baba Felunath, Bombaiyer Bombatay, Sonar Kella, Tintorettor Jishu

10. Nayak (1966)

source: www.wikipedia.org

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writer: Satyajit Ray

Stars: Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen, Somen Bose, Sumita Sanyal

Nayak (English: The Hero) was the first movie in Bengali film industry in which Uttam Kumar worked with Satyajit Ray. Satyajit Ray famously said in an interview, “If it’s Nayak (Hero), it has to be Uttam Kumar. No one else can play the character except him.” The story revolves around a matinee idol on a 24-hour train journey from Kolkata to Delhi to receive a national award. However, he ends up revealing his mistakes, insecurities, and regrets to a young journalist, who realizes that behind all the glitter is a deeply lonely man. Her initial contempt for people like him turns into empathy, and she decides not to publish what he has revealed. His life journey is gradually revealed through seven flashbacks and two dreams during the train ride.

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9. Charulata (1964)

source: www.wikipedia.org

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writer: Based on Nastanirh by Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray (Screenplay)

Stars: Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sailen Mukherjee, Syamal Ghosal

Charulata (English: The Lonely Wife) has been widely considered as one of the finest and best Bengali movies made in the Indian Cinema history and has won critical acclaim overseas as well. The movie holds one of the highest ratings for an Indian film in Rotten Tomatoes, a 96% ‘fresh’ rating and 8.4/10 rating on IMDb. Madhabi Mukherjee stars as Charulata, a wife of a rich man, who leads an extremely isolated and idle life in 1870’s Calcutta. Her husband notices that she is alone and requests his brother Amal to keep her company. Charulata soon begins to develop a deep sexual attraction towards Amal. The storyline of the movie is known for its ‘western characters’, and for Madhabi Mukherjee’s famous gaze, as she looks at Amal.

8. Matir Moina (2002)

Director: Tareque Masud

Writer: Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud

Stars: Nurul Islam Babu, Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Russell Farazi, Rokeya Prachy, Soaeb Islam

Matir Moina (English: The Clay Bird) became Bangladesh’s first movie to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It’s a must watch movie for every fan of Bengali cinema. The movie depicts the pain of people during the Bangladesh War of Liberation. The movie won a number of awards internationally but was initially banned in Bangladesh on the grounds that it trade with issues sensitive to the religious. The ban was canceled and the DVD version was released on April 16, 2005. The film was shot almost entirely with non-professionals in local settings often using local sounds.

7. Heerak Rajar Deshe (1980)

source: www.wikipedia.org

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writers: Satyajit Ray

Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt, Rabi Ghosh, Tapen Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta

Heerak Rajar Deshe (In the land of the Diamond King) is the sequel to 1969 film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne and the second installment of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne series directed by Satyajit Ray. The musician duo of Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne make a comeback in this sequel, where they are invited to the court of the Hirak Raja (The Diamond King), for their musical skills. They have to perform at the kingdom’s Jubilee Celebrations. But coming to the kingdom, they use their natural goodness and curiosity to find out that all is not well in the kingdom. There is exploitation of poor farmers and diamond miners.

The soundtrack of this movie won 3 National Film Awards in three categories. Satyajit Ray won 2 awards, one for the Best Music Direction and other for Best Lyrics Award for the song “Aha Ki Anondo Akashe Batashe”. Anup Ghoshal won the Best Male Playback Singer Award for the song “Paaye Podi Baghmama”.

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6. Abhijan (1962)

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writer: Adapted from the novel Abhijan by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Satyajit Ray

Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Soumitra Chatterjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Charuprakash Ghosh, Rabi Ghosh

The film portrays the life of Narsingh, an uprooted taxi driver and how he, after countless hazards, fly with Gulabi, a village widow who Narsingh’s master intended to keep as a prostitute. Besides, the juxtaposition of the symbols of the “Mama Bhagne” pahar and the old, worn out car stands apart in the whole film. Unlike other films in this listicle, this is a mainstream film and one of Ray’s super hits in Bengal. This film too, like other films of Ray, had won critical acclaims worldwide.It is one of the best Bengali movies of Satyajit Ray. The film gives the famous Ray flavor in its composition, flow and dialogues, and use of symbols.

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5. Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)

source: www.wikipedia.org

Director: Ritwik Ghatak

Writer: Shaktipada Rajguru (The original Novel), Ritwik Ghatak (Screenplay)

Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Supriya Choudhary, Gita Ghatak, Niranjan Ray, Gita Dey, Bijon Bhattacharya

Meghe Dhaka Tara (Meaning: The Cloud-Capped Star) was part of the trilogy, Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960), Komal Gandhar (1961), and Subarnarekha (1962), all dealing with the aftermath of the Partition of Bengal during the Partition of India in 1947 and the refugees coping with it. The movie is also listed in the book “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die”, which praises “the grace of Ghatak’s mise en scène, his expressionist sound design, and the enormous sense of loss.” The movie revolves around a selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhary) who sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

In a confirmation of the popularity of Meghe Dhaka Tara, a recent survey by a leading Indian news group reported that the concluding line of the film, “Dada, ami baachte chai” (“Brother, I want to survive”) was the most well-known line of any film.

4. Apur Sansar (1959)

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writer: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (original story “Aparajito”), Satyajit Ray (screenplay)

Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee

It is the third part of The Apu Trilogy, about the childhood and early adulthood of a young Bengali named Apu in the early twentieth-century Indian subcontinent. The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) has been famous across the world and is usually listed among the greatest films of all time. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and several international awards.

Life struggle continues for Apu who is now a young man but jobless, dreaming of a future as a writer. He fails to continue his higher studies due to poverty, and tries to make a living out of tuition. An old college friend Phulu, takes him to a village to attend a wedding where life takes a serious turn for Apu.

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3. Jibon Theke Neya (1970)

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Director: Zahir Raihan

Writer: Amjad Hossain, Zahir Raihan

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Stars: Razzak, Anawar Hossain, Shuchonda, Shawkat Akbar, Khan Ataur Rahman, Rosy Samad

The movie is a political satire based on the Bengali Language Movement under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family signifies the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan. An arrogant bad tempered woman controls family members-her husband, two brothers and the servants which symbolize the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in then East Pakistan. Both stories run in parallel. Outside, the people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) rise in political protest, and inside, the family members raise their voices against the tyrannical woman. The two brothers get married and the situation gets more complex when there are conspiracies for the control of the family between the sisters-in-law by having the keys of the house.

2. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969)

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writer: Upendra Kishore Raychowdhury

Stars: Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Santosh Dutta, Jahor Roy, Harindranath

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Goopi and Bagha are two characters who meet in a jungle being banished by the King of their village. They by chance meet the King of Ghosts and he gives them three boons for their simplicity and innocence. Rest of the story revolves around how they use those boons for the betterment of Shundi Kingdom. Even though this is mostly touted as a children’s film, it, without doubt, features in every adult’s favorite list. The first movie in the Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne series which was made by Satyajit Ray, which became the longest running movie in the history of Bengal, running for 51 straight weeks! This movie is one of the best Bengali movies of all time.

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1. Pather Panchali (1955)

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Director: Satyajit Ray

Writer: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (novel), Satyajit Ray (screenplay)

Stars: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Chunibala Devi, Subir Banerjee, Tulsi Chakrabarti

The first film of the Apu trilogy, this one depicts the early life of Apu and his family. Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a remote village called Nischintipur in Bengal. The father, a priest, cannot earn enough to keep his family going. Apu’s sister, Durga, is forever stealing guavas from the neighbor’s garden and all these add to the daily struggles of the mother’s life. And all this portrayed so superbly by Oscar winning director Satyajit Ray. Pather Panchali is described as a turning point in Indian cinema, as it pioneered the parallel cinema movement. It is one of the best Bengali movies till now and favorite among all the Bengali audiences.

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