Brihonnola
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| Directed by | Murad Parvez |
| Produced by | Film Hawkar |
| Screenplay by | Murad Parvez |
| Story by | Syed Mustafa Siraj |
| Based on | "Gaach-ta Bolechilo" (The Tree had Told) by Syed Mustafa Siraj |
| Starring |
Ferdous Ahmed Sohana Saba Azad Abul Kalam Intekhab Dinar |
| Music by | Emon Saha |
| Edited by | Rudro Biplob |
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130 minutes |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Language | Bangla |
Brihonnola is a 2014 Bangladeshi Feature film directed and produced by Murad Parvez based on a short story named "Gaach-ta Bolechilo" (The Tree had Told) by Indian Bengali author Syed Mustafa Siraj. The film stars Ferdous Ahmed, Sohana Saba, Azad Abul Kalam, Jhuna Choudhury, Intekhab Dinar. Brihonnola is a tale of the goodness inherent in human nature prevailing over religious prejudice and racial dogmatism.
The film released on 19 September, 2014.
Mohanpur is an ancient village, not unlike many such villages of our country, still deprived of the basic amenities of modern times. There is a local health centre minus a permanent doctor(Azad Abul Kalam) as no one is willing to work and live in a village. There is also a primary school with no more than a handful of pupils and the few who do go to school hardly ever attend college afterward. The population of the village is just average, neither too dense nor too sparse. One it was a predominantly Hindu locality, but in a course of time, the proportion of Hindus has declined to the level of Muslims and is continuing to decline further. However, any conflict or clash between the adherents of the two faiths is yet unheard of in this village. All villagers live in an atmosphere of friendly tolerance.Everything has been going well for ages, but at one point an ancient banyan tree becomes the focal point of dispute between the two sections of the village community. Situated on public land, this tree has been witness to the passage of time. It is said that once this plot of land used to be the property of a Hindu zamindar, but at present it belongs to the government.
The villagers do not have many possessions, except for a few things. The Muslims have a mosque, the Hindus a temple. There are one community health centre and an ancient railway station. One day the Hindus suddenly began to think: “Wish we could have another temple!” The Muslims also thought: “If we could not have another mosque, why not an Eidgah at least?” And both sides wanted their temple or mosque to be erected on the empty public land. But the tree on the plot stood in the way.
The only resident doctor in the village, elderly homeopath Araj Ali(Azad Abul Kalam), had been applying to the authorities for the last five years for a good doctor for the health centre. Finally, his application bore fruit, a qualified doctor was sent from the district town, and on the same day the village carpenter Tulsi’s(Intekhab Dinar) goat died on the public land. Hindus and Muslims were shocked by the incident, they suspected the tree on the plot was cursed. Rumour was rife in the village that the old banyan tree was the cause of the animal’s death. To prevent the recurrence of such incidents the vicinity of the tree was declared inaccessible to all human beings, their cattle, and other domestic pets. But at one time children used to play hide-and-seek around that banyan tree on the public land, on scorching hot days cowherds dozed in its soothing shade, peasants working in the fields cooled their perspiring bodies under its leafy branches while eating the lunch brought by their wives or daughters. But in a few days time, the cursed tree claimed its second victim, the carpenter Tulsi’s old mother(Dilara Zaman) who went gathering dry leaves under it. Tulsi’s beautiful wife Durgarani(Sohana Saba) told everyone that tree was indeed the killer of her mother-in-law.
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