Chitra Nodir Pare (Bengali: চিত্রা নদীর পারে, known in English as Quiet Flows the River Chitra) is a Bangladeshi Bengali language film on the destiny of a Hindu family in East Pakistan. Directed by Tanvir Mokammel, the film won seven national awards including the best film and the best director of the year 1999. Other awards were best Story, best Dialogue, best Art-Director, best Supporting Actress and best Make-up Man. The film was shown in London, Oslo, Fribourg (Switzerland), Singapore, Delhi, Calcutta and Trivandrum film festivals.
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Cast
Momtajuddin Ahmed – Shashikanta Sengupta
Afsana Mimi – Minoti
Tauquir Ahmed – Badal
Rawshan Jamil – Anuprova
Sumita Devi
Nazmul Huda
Soundtrack
The music of this film was directed by Syed Shabab Ali Arzoo.
Response
Film critic Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, writing in Cinemaya in 2000, named Chitra Nodir Pare as one of the top twelve films from Bangladesh.