The Bangladesh Story Under Three Flags

Record ID: 126940
  • Title: The Bangladesh Story Under Three Flags
  • Date: 17th January 1989
  • Summary: THIS DOCUMENTARY TELLS THE STORY OF KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM.ONE OF BENGAL'S MOST PROLIFIC AND POPULAR POETS AND SONGWRITERS, HE COMPOSED MORE THAN 3000 POEMS AND SONGS. BORN IN 1899, A MUSLIM FROM RURAL BENGAL, HIS LIFE WAS CHARACTERISED BY POVERTY AND PERSONAL TRAGEDY.AT THE AGE OF NINE HE BEGAN WORKING TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH. LATER HE THREW HIMSELF INTO THE STRUGGLE FOR INDIAN INDEPENDENCE AND WAS IMPRISONED AS A RESULT. NAZRUL WAS OPPOSED TO HINDU AND MUSLIM COMMUNILISM AND MARRIED AHINDU, CAUSING UPROAR IN BOTH COMMUNITIED. TRAGICALLY IN 1942 NAZRUL SUFFERED AN ILLNESS WHICH LEFT HIM DEAF, MUTE AND UNCOMPREHENDING UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1976.
  • Description:3 DOCS ONE ON THE NATIONAL POET OF BANGLADESH,NAZRUL ISLAM AND THE SECOND ON THE BRIEF BUT BLOODY HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY THAT KISSINGER CALLED 'A BASKET CASE'
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Azad Prods
  • Programme Episode:Episode 2
  • Transmission Date:17/01/1989
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1980s
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