‘Birkonna Pritilata’ released

Entertainment Report :
‘Birkonna Pritilata,’ a
government granted movie based on the life of revolutionary Pritilata Waddedar, has been released in the
theatres on Friday. The story of the movie is based on
the novel titled ‘Bhalobasha Pritilata’ written by eminent novelist Selina Hossain.
Directed by Pradip Ghosh, popular actress Nusrat Imrose Tisha played the role of ‘Pritilata,’ one of the leaders and the first female martyr of the anti-British
movement, and Manoj Pramanik played the role
of revolutionary Ram Krishna in this movie.
While talking about the movie, Trisha said, “Portraying Pritilata was very challenging as we had no video documentation
of her time. We had to prepare ourselves by reading books to get into the characters. But we tried
our best.”
It is noted that Pritilata was born in a middle-class Vaidya Brahmin family on May 5, 1911, in Dhalghat village in Patiya upazila
of Chattogram.
In 1929, she got admitted to Eden College before
joining the Independence Movement of the Indian Subcontinent in 1932 to
liberate the region from British colonial rule. Regarded as “Bengal’s first woman martyr,” she ended her life by consuming
potassium cyanide
on September 24, 1932,
at the age of 21.