Stop Jhatka sale
There goes the random sale of jatka (Hilsha kids below six inches) in the city’s kitchen markets despite the fact that the government has imposed sanction on it. When I reminded a retailer of the State’s embargo, he said: Wholesalers sell, we purchase. We sell and you purchase.
I said: Do not Police and RAB intercept you?
He said: We hide the jatka the moment we see them coming. Rather, arrest the fishermen who catch jatka in the rivers and the sea, and those who patronize them.
I said: If you cooperate with the government, automatically the wholesalers will be discouraged and so will be the fishermen.
However, I request the ministry of fishery and the local administration to look into the matter.
Abdur Rashid
Dhaka
Imported movies in cinema hall
I like to defend screening of the Indian Hindi and Urdu movies in the Bangladeshi cinema halls provided the Bangladeshi movies are screened in the Indian cinema halls.
Bangladeshi directors and producers made successful commercial and art films like Mukh O Mukhosh, A Desh Tomar Aamar, Matir Pahar, Je Nadi Marupathe, Nadi of Nari, Roopban, Jago Hua Sabera (Day Shall Dawn), Sat Bhai Champa, Kancher Dewal, Kakhono Asemie, Suryo Snan, Dharapat, Sootarang, Ai To Jiban, Aakash O Mati, Harano Din, Rajdhanir Booke and Kagajer Nouka between 1955 and 1965 to fight back the Hindi and Urdu aggression.
Kancher Dewal directed by Zahir Raihan was adjudged the best movie in the then Pakistan in 1965, while A J Kardar’s Jago Hua Sabera got medal in the Moscow International Film Festival and Subhash Dutta’s Sootarang also earned international fame from Tashkhent, Uzbekistan.
So, there is nothing to be scared. A good story, class dialogue, sincere acting, beautiful location and striking photograph can make a good movie.
Ameer Hamzah
Dhaka
