Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
director · 1973 · Bangladeshi
Three-time Bangladesh Academy Award submission; Television closed Busan 2012 and won the Asia Pacific Screen Awards Grand Jury Prize 2013
18 films catalogued17 directed
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (b. 1973) is Bangladesh’s most internationally visible contemporary director, associated with the break from Dhallywood melodrama toward vernacular, improvisation-driven realism. Television (2012) closed the Busan International Film Festival and won the Asia Pacific Screen Awards Grand Jury Prize, and three of his features have been Bangladesh’s Academy Award submissions. He cast Irrfan Khan in Doob (2017).
Defining films
Bachelor (2003) · Third Person Singular Number (2009) · Television (2012) · Doob: No Bed of Roses (2017) · Shonibar Bikel (2019)
Directed (17)
Vocatta
Vocatta
1999 · Bangladeshi
Choruibhati
2002 · Bengali Renaissance
Bachelor
2004 · Bangladeshi
Spartacus '71
Spartacus '71
2005 · Bangladeshi
Mad_e in Bangladesh
2006 · Bangladeshi
Uposonghar
2007 · Bangladeshi
Carrom Part-2
2008 · Bangladeshi
First Date
2009 · Bangladeshi
Third Person Singular Number
2009 · Bangladeshi
Television
2012 · Bangladeshi
Ant Story
2013 · Bangladeshi
No Bed of Roses
2017 · Bangladeshi
Ayesha
2018 · Bangladeshi
Saturday Afternoon
2019 · Bangladeshi
Something Like an Autobiography
2023 · Bangladeshi
Last Defenders of Monogamy
2024 · Bangladeshi
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2024 · Bangladeshi
