Short film Mukuler Jadur Ghora completes first stage of shooting

Entertainment Report :
Debashis Das’ National Film Grant-winning short film for children, titled Mukuler Jadur Ghora, has completed its first stage of filming. The shooting took place at Jagotee, Kushtia, from February 28 to March 3. The latter stages of filming will take place in seven more locations across the country, confirmed the director. The short film will revolve around a 10-year-old boy Mukul, who gets lost in the marketplace after following the strange song of a bird.
He gets separated from his mother and sets
out on a new adventure into a magical world.
Chondrobindu Tota, son of Joler Gaan’s Rahul Ananda, is playing the titular role; and actors Ahmed Rubel, Saiful Journal, Gazi Mahtab Hassan, Sattar Fakir and others have been cast in supporting roles.
“It is rare to see films made for children. But children have such a rich imagination along with an untapped arsenal of emotions that my team and I took almost six months to get out of preproduction in a bid to make a short film that will directly speak to children and try to fill in the gap of children-friendly films in Bangladesh,” director Debashis Das explained.
It is noted that Mukuler Jadur Ghora received the national film grant in the 2019-2020 fiscal year. Debashis Das’ last short film, Niruddesh Jatra, inspired by Akhteruzzaman Elias’ short story of the same name, premiered at the spiritual section of the 19th Dhaka International Film Festival, on January 19.