Immigration Desk
22 April 2024, 04:07 pm
A two-day international film festival has started in New York, USA, on the occasion of the 93rd birthday of Bengali film legend Suchitra Sen. Actor and Member of Parliament Ferdous Ahmed officially inaugurated the festival at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in New York on Saturday (April 20) morning local time.
Film screening starts from 11 am on Saturday. Popular actors, actresses and invited guests from Bangladesh and West Bengal of India sat together and enjoyed various films. 39 films from Bangladesh and India will be screened for free in this two-day festival. An organization named Suchitra Sen Memorial USA has organized this two-day international film festival.
The organizers said that the two-day festival was organized on the occasion of the 93rd birthday of Suchitra Sen, a girl from Pabna district of Bangladesh, to spread the contribution of Bengali cinema to the world. The main objective of this event is to convey Suchitra Sen’s contribution to Bengali culture and cinema to the new generation of people. Although 409 films from different countries including India and Bangladesh were submitted for exhibition at the event, 39 films were selected for exhibition through the jury. The organizers said that there is no entry fee for this festival.
Chanchal Chowdhury, Bandhan, Joy, India’s Rituparna Sen, Reshmi Mitra and more than hundred actors and actresses, directors and movie lovers were present at the inauguration ceremony.
It should be noted that April 6 was Suchitra Sen’s birthday. He was born on this day in 1931 in Pabna district. Suchitra was the fifth of nine siblings. The children of the house called Rangadi. Parents named Rama. Director Sukumar Dasgupta’s assistant Nitish Roy replaced it with Suchitra. But his name was Krishna Dasgupta in the book at Mahakali Pathshala in Pabna. After completing her schooling at Mahakali Pathshala, Suchitra Sen studied in the local Pabna Girls’ School till Class IX. Born in an upper middle class family, Suchitra Sen moved to India with her family in 1947, a few months before the partition of the country.
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