A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
Director:
Tareque Masud
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Nurul Islam Bablu | ... | Anu |
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Russell Farazi | ... | Rokon |
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Jayanto Chattopadhyay | ... | Kazi |
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Rokeya Prachy | ... | Ayesha |
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Soaeb Islam | ... | Milon |
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Lameesa R. Reemjheem | ... | Asma |
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Moin Ahmed | ... | Ibrahim |
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Md. Moslemuddin | ... | Headmaster |
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Abdul Karim | ... | Halim Mia |
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Shah Alam Dewan | ... | Boatman |
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Golam Mahmud | ... | Shaheen |
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Pradip Mittra Mithun | ... | Uttam |
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Auyon Chowdhury | ... | 3rd Friend |
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Masud Ali Khan | ... | Khan Bahadur |
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Manjila Begum | ... | Female Singer- Night Concert |
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A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
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In many parts of this movie different character used English word in their dialogue. But it became a trend after 20th century. See more »Contribute to This Page
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Matir Moyna, known in English as The Clay Bird is a Bengali film directed by Tareque Masud, a film director of Bangladesh. The film was released in 2002. This the first movie from Bangladesh nominated for Oscars. The film is set in the late-'60s, prior to Bangladeshi independence from Pakistan; the film deals with a young boy named Anu, in a Bangladeshi small-town, with his strict and deeply religious father, mother and little sister.The story starts with a boy Anu whose father fears his boy's corruption by the outside world sends his son to study in to a strict Islamic school called Madrassa.
This film reveals many allegations and documented cases of physical abuse in madrassas, such as corporal punishment, beatings and other such practices ( for example writing Arabic with left hand was a great sin, having TV which considered as a box of a Satan in home etc).