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Bangladeshi dancers to participate at INDICLAD, India

The Ranganiketan Manipur Cultural Arts Troupe and Srila Sripada Education Foundation is organizing INDICLAD International Indian Classical Dance Festival 2013 in connection with 76th VYASA Pujah festival of His Divine Holiness B..SDamodara Swami Srila Sripada on December 8 in Imphal under the theme “For peace, harmony and unity in Manipur” in a spirit to rejuvenate an interest in the traditional Indian performing art forms among the youth in Manipur and India at large, said a release from Ajit Das, chairman, organizing committee INDICLAD. The festival will be participated by world famous Odyssey dancer Sita from France, Tamanna Rahama...

Jibondhuli selected for Film Festival

Tanvir Mokammel’s latest silver screen endeavour, “Jibondhuli”, has been selected to participate in the competition section of the 6th Jaipur International Film Festival 2014, beginning from February 1-5. Director Tanvir Mokammel has been invited to attend the festival, says a press release. jibondhuli The national grant-winning film is the story of a minority ‘dhuli’ or folk drummer, Jibonkrishna Das, during the Liberation War of 1971. The cast of the film includes Shatabdi Wadud, Ramendu Majumder, Wahida Mollick Jolly, Chitralekha Guha, Pran Roy,...

Ghashful organizes Autumn Festival in city

Ghashful, a media house organized ‘Autumn Festival’ titled ‘Chhorai Chhonde Shishir Bhejha Hredoy Chhoye’ at the Seminar Room of Central Public Library in the city on Saturday. [caption id="attachment_1136" align="alignleft" width="300"]Gashful (1) Mohiuzzaman Chowdhury Moina is performing Rabindra Songit in the function[/caption] Poet Muhammad Nurul Huda presided over the function while Bilu Kabir presented a keynote paper on verse literature after welcome speech of noted writer Ata Sarkar. The cont...

Restaurants honoured with Curry Oscars by British PM

The UK’s favourite cuisine was once again celebrated at the ninth, annual British Curry Awards on Monday at Battersea Evolution, as the nation’s finest curry restaurants were honoured at undisputedly the most lauded event of the UK hospitality sector. This year's ceremony once again welcomed a who’s who guest list of 100 leading restaurateurs, celebrities, politicians, dignitaries, business leaders and influencers, says a press release. UK PMAmong them were Prime Minister David Cameron; politicians Chris Grayling MP, Keith Vaz MP, Anne Main MP, Al...

LRB to perform at South Asia Band Festival in India

The leading band group of Bangladesh, LRB will perform in the seventh edition of South Asian Bands Festival (SABF) slated to be held at Purana Qila from November 29 to Dec 1. This year's line-up include Barefaced Liar, Circus and Susmit Sen Chronicles (Delhi), LRB (Bangladesh), ZnG (Bhutan), Biuret (Korea), Stigmata (Sri Lanka), Eman's Conspiracy (Maldives), Papon And The East Indian Company and What's In The Name (Mumbai), Strings (Pakistan), Pardis (Afghanistan), Albatross (Nepal) and The Raghu Dixit Project (Bengaluru). Presented by the ministry of external affairs, ICCR and Seher, the three-day festival will feature fourteen popular rock bands from across nine nations of the sub-continent.

Tarin Rahman in limelight for two TVCs

Lux star Tarin Rahman came into limelight after airing her acted two television commercials (TVCs) in different satellite channels recently. Now Tarin acted two TVCs - ‘Banglalink -Bondho Thaka Shongjog’ and ‘Meril Petroleum Jelly’ are being aired in different channels.   Under the direction of Ashfaq Bipul and Gazi Shuvro Tarin’s performances in these two TVCs are being appreciated by the viewers. While talking about Tarin’s performance director Ashfaq Bipul told this correspondent, “I always feel comfortable to perform in experimental work.   With Tarin it was like that work. This TVC has already came into limelight now.” While sharing her feelings to perform in two mentionable TVCs at present at a time Tarin said, “These two TVCs were made in separate time. But these TVCs ar...
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