Written by Pooja Pillai |Updated: August 4, 2017 12:00:17 am
‘Amnesia about one’s history never serves well’
Bangladeshi filmmaker Tanvir Mokammel on Simantorekha, his Partition documentary and on learning from history
Tanvir Mokammel has never shied from difficult subjects. In the 30-odd years that he has been making movies, the Bangladeshi filmmaker has addressed the most urgent issues plaguing his country, such as the aftermath of the 1971 war of liberation, the changes in Bangladesh’s riparian landscape, adult illiteracy, unsafe working conditions in garment manufacturing units and clashes based on religious and linguistic identities. His latest, Simantorekha (The Borderline), is a Bengali documentary that explores the impact of Partition on both sides of the Bengal border and is being screened in Mumbai this weekend as part of the Godrej India Culture Lab’s event ‘Remembering Partition’. In an email interview, the 62 year old discusses why the story of the division deserves to be remembered and how an artist can tell the truth without being persecuted.
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