Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a contemporary Bangladeshi film director and screenwriter. He is also the pioneer of an avant-garde filmmakers’ movement called “Chabial”. Variety’s Jay Weissberg described Farooki as “a key exemplar of Bangladeshi new wave cinema movement”.
Farooki and Anisul Hoque have collaborated on feature films including Bachelor (2003), Made in Bangladesh (2007), Third Person Singular Number (2009), and Television (2012), which was selected as the Bangladeshi entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards®.
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