Rabeya (2008)
1h 45m
Running Time
December 1, 2008Release Date
Plot.
During Bangladesh's Liberation War against Pakistan in 1971, in a remote village Rabeya and Rokeya, two orphaned young sisters, live in the religiously conservative household of their uncle Emdad Kazi, a rich kulak and a local Muslim League leader.
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Cast & Crew.
Banna Mirza
Rabeya
Jyotika Jyoti
Rokeya
Aly Zaker
Emdad Kazi
Arman Parvez Murad
Tarikul (Rabeya's fiance)
Tauquir Ahmed
Actor
Tanvir Mokammel
Director / Writer
Syed Shabab Ali Arzoo
Music / Assistant Director
Masum Aziz
Actor
Anwar Hossain
Cinematography
Sayed Babu
Actor
Bhaswar Bandyopadhyay
Actor
Mahadeb Shi
Editor
Uttam Guha
Art Direction / Assistant Director
Chitralekha Guho
Costume Design
Sagir Mostafa
Assistant Director
Sorwar Tamijuddin
Assistant Director
Details.
Wiki.
Rabeya (Bengali: রাবেয়া), also known by its English title, The Sister, is a 2008 Bangladeshi Bengali-language war film written and directed by Tanvir Mokammel, with permission from the government of Bangladesh. The film is set during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. It stars Aly Zaker, Bonna Mirza, Jyotika Jyoti, and Tauquir Ahmed in lead roles. According to Mokammel, Rabeya is a "deconstruction" of the Sophocles play, Antigone, and was premiered on December 6, 2008.
The film was shot in Khulna and Bagerhat. It was screened at the Singapore International Film Festival and in Copenhagen. It was also broadcast on television in ATN Bangla on December 13, 2008.