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Explore All The Tanvir Mokammel’s Films Here
Find necessary information about all the films directed by Tanvir Mokammel.
List of Tanvir Mokammel Films
Lalsalu
- In Bangla: লালসালু
- English Title: A Tree Without Roots
- Script & Direction: Tanvir Mokammel
- Year: 2001 AD
- Length: 110 minutes
- Format: 35mm
- About the film: It’s a feature film based on the novel LALSALU, perhaps the best novel written on the rural Mulsim community by Syed Waliullah. The story centres around the life of a Mullah who established a false shrine in a remote village in Bangladesh.
Hooliya
- In Bangla: হুলিয়া
- English Title: Wanted
- Script & Direction: Tanvir Mokammel
- Year: 1984 AD
- Length: 28 minutes
- Color: Black & White
- Format: 16mm
- About the film: An experimental film based on a political poem by poet Nirmalendu Goon (Bangla: নির্মলেন্দু গুণ).
Nadir Nam Modhumati
- In Bangla: নদীর নাম মধুমতী
- English Title: The River Named Modhumati
- Script & Direction: Tanvir Mokammel
- Year: 1995 AD
- Length: 130 minutes
- Format: 16mm
- About the film: A deconstruction of the Hamlet theme on the backdrop of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
Chitra Nadir Pare
- In Bangla: চিত্রা নদীর পারে
- English Title: Quiet Flows The River Chitra
- Script & Direction: Tanvir Mokammel
- Year: 1998 AD
- Length: 114 minutes
- Format: 16mm
- About the film: A feature film on the destiny of a Hindu family in East Pakistan who refused to migrate from their homeland after the partition of India in 1947.
Lalon
- In Bangla: লালন
- Script & Direction: Tanvir Mokammel
- Year: 2004 AD
- Length: 140 minutes
- Format: 35mm
- About the film: A feature film on Lalon Fakir, a mystic song-composer of the 19th century. Lalon, steeped in Islamic Sufi tradition, Hindu Vaisnabism and Buddhist Tantricism was a mentor among the Baul-Fakirs of Bengal. Lalon composed few hundred songs with profound depth and excellent sense of music. A musical cinema, the film depicts the life and persona of Lalon Fakir using the lyrics of his songs.
Rabeya
- In Bangla: রাবেয়া
- English Title: The Sister
- Script & Direction: Tanvir Mokammel
- Year: 2008 AD
- Length: 105 minutes
- Format: 35mm
- About the film: A feature film on the deconstruction of Sophocles’s play “Antigone” on the backdrop of the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971.
Jibondhuli
- In Bangla: জীবনঢুলী
- English Title: The Drummer
- Script & Direction: Tanvir Mokammel
- Year: 2014 AD
- Length: 90 minutes
- Format: Digital
- About the film: A feature film about a low-caste Hindu drummer during the Bangladesh-liberation war in 1971, who being a Hindu was supposed to be killed by the Pakistan army and their retainers Islamic fundamentalist forces. But Jibon the drummer, though lost his family in the genocide, survived the ordeals of the war. His humanity and artistic instincts thrived at the end.
Rupsa Nodir Banke
- In Bangla: রূপসা নদীর বাঁকে
- English Title: QUIET FLOWS THE RIVER RUPSA
- Script & Direction: Tanvir Mokammel
- Year: 2020 AD
- Length: 137 minutes
- Format: Digital
- About the film: A fiction film on the life and struggles of a left-wing leader who was murdered by the Islamic forces during the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh.