Bangladesh is a vital presence at the 2023 Busan International Film Festival with three films in competition and a film at the Asian Project Market. The current wave of Bangladeshi cinema was heralded ...

CONSIDER these lines, as quotations or as a paraphrase: "Bengali Muslims of East Bengal/Pakistan were a vitally important audience for the Bengali film industry of Calcutta during the "golden age" of ...

DHAKA - Thousands flocked to cinemas in Dhaka on Friday as actor Shah Rukh Khan’s blockbuster Pathaan hit the big screens, the first Bollywood movie to get a full release in Bangladesh in more than ...

I have been asked to write something on the occasion of the launch of "Film Alliance Bangladesh" (FAB), so here goes my two pence on cinema reform in Bangladesh. One may ask, reform from what, and ...

Manoshi opened on Bangshal Road in 1936. It ended its journey of over 80 years in 2019. The signboard in front of the building now directs passerby to the Manoshi Complex, a shopping mall. Though the ...

DHAKA: Bangladesh cinemas will boycott movies starring the nation’s top actor after he led protests against the first screening of a Hindi film in decades in the country, an official said on Thursday.

DHAKA: For 37 years, Taraknath Chowdhury has spent every day sitting behind a booth in a corner of one of the Bangladeshi capital’s most famous cinemas. This month, however, the 59-year-old will end ...

Thousands of people flocked to cinemas in Bangladesh to watch Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan – the first Hindi film to be released in the country in more than 50 years. Dhaka had previously imposed a ban on ...

A series of near-simultaneous bomb blasts at four Bangladesh cinemas packed with families celebrating the end of the Ramadan Muslim fasting month killed 15 people on Saturday and wounded nearly 300.