‘Mayar Janjal’ by Opi Karim is a unique achievement

Mubi.com, the world’s best streaming platform for auteur films, offers masterpieces from famous directors such as John Luke-Gather, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Roman Polanski, David Fincher , Francois Crufo. Along with this, joint Bangladesh-India production “Mayar Janjal” was placed.

The film was placed in the list of incredibly beautiful and interesting films. It also mentions the film’s achievements at various festivals and the crew list.

Mubidotcom includes “The Four Hundred Blows” (1959) by French director François Crufort, “Fallen Angel” (1955) by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, “No Country for Old Men” (2007) by American directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen , Francis “Godfather Part One” (1972) and “Godfather Part Two” (1972) by Ford Coppola, “Taxi Driver” (1976) by Martin Scorsese, “Pulp Fiction” (1994) and “Reservoir Dogs” (1992) by Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher “Fight Club” (1999), Franco-Brazilian co-production “City of God” (2002) directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, “A bout de souffle” (1960) by French director Jean-Luc Godard, “China Town” by Polish director Roman Polaniski’ (1974). There is also ‘Mayar Janjal’ directed by Indian Indranil Roychowdhury based on two short stories by Manik Banerjee.

Actress Opi Karim will be seen on the big screen after many years through the film. Her character name is Soma in the film. Her poor family with her husband and only child. The husband is unemployed. For this reason, this woman took a job as a babysitter in a house to teach her child English.

The film’s producer, Jaseem Ahmed, became known in his country and abroad by making short films. These are ‘Stain’, ‘A Pair of Sandals’ and ‘Chocolate’. He said that on the occasion of the release of his film ‘Mayar Janjal’, artists from Kolkata are likely to come to Dhaka.

He said that the world premiere of the film ‘Myer Janjal’ took place in the official selection of the Asian New Talent Award of the prestigious Shanghai International Film Festival in China. It had its European premiere in the Films Around the World section of the Moscow International Film Festival. The film was later invited to the Asian Perspectives section of the Jogja-Netpack Asian Film Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Additionally, “Mayer Janjal” won the Jury Award for Best Feature Film in the “Meet Asian Cinema” competition section of the Asiatica Film Festival in Rome, Italy, the Best Film Award at the Rainbow Film Festival in London, UK, and the screenplay in the Asian competition of the Dhaka International Film Festival.

“Mayar Janjal” is jointly produced by Views and Visions and Kolkata-based Flipbook.