The National Award for Brihonnola has been rejected. Brihonnola, a movie directed by Murad Pavez, won in three categories in the National Film Award 2014: best film, best story and best dialogue. It is a government funded film The film Brihonnola, acted by Sohana Saba and Ferdous.
After the announcement, the director of Brihonnala, was alleged for plagiarism. The allegation came under spotlight when Times of India published a report quoting Syed Mustafa Siraj’s elder son Abhijit Siraj.
In the report published in September last year, Siraj claimed that Murad Parvez’s Brihonnola was an adaptation of “Gaachhta Bolechhilo,” a short story written by his father.
The government had earlier sent a notice to its director, Murad Parvez, asking for his explanation on the allegation that the source of Brihonnola is Syed Mustafa Siraj’s short story “Gachhta Bolechhilo.”
The information secretary said that Parvez had responded to the ministry’s call for an explanation. However, he did not disclose the names of other members of the investigation panel.
West Bengal-based authors Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay and Debesh Roy have written to Information Minister, Hasanul Haq Inu, asking the government to pay Rs1,50,000 to the family of Siraj as royalty. Syed Hasmat Jalal, the secretary to Syed Mustafa Siraj Academy, had also written to Inu regarding the matter.
Finally, after two months of continuous allegations, Brihonnola got rejected by the National Award authority in all three of the categories
