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The second Bangladesh Film Festival –mostly focussing on Liberation War of 1971 where Tripura played a key role was inaugurated in Agartala here on Wednesday.
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, Bangladesh Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud, Tripura Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Sushanta Chowdhury, along with many actors and film personalities from Bangladesh attended the inaugural function.
“ The Bangladesh Film Festival this time has been designed to commemorate the Golden jubilee celebrations of the 1971 Liberation War”, said an official of the Bangladesh Assistant High Commissioner’s office of Agartala.
One film was screened at the inaugural session on Wednesday, while several other films on ‘Mukti Juddha’ (liberation war) are line-up for screening.
Bangladesh Assistant High Commissioner Arif Mohammad said that best-produced films on the liberation war would be screened in the festival to showcase the great victory and glorious history of Bangladesh before the young generations of the two countries.
The role of the Indian government, especially the people of Tripura, during the liberation war would also be highlighted in the film festival.
Speakers from Bangladesh in the festival said , several more cultural and literary events would be jointly organized here to further strengthen the bonding between the two neighbouring countries.
The festival was scheduled to be held in Agartala in October last year, but was deferred due to the communal incidents that occurred in Bangladesh during the Durga Puja festival and the subsequent fallout in Tripura.
