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Tareque Masud (Tarequer Masud) was born on 6 December, 1956 in Bhanga, Faridpur, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), is a Bangladeshi film director. Discover Tareque Masud's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Tarequer Masud
Occupation Film director producer screenwriter lyricist
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 6 December, 1956
Birthday 6 December
Birthplace Bhanga, Faridpur, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
Date of death 13 August, 2011
Died Place Ghior Upazila, Manikganj, Bangladesh
Nationality Bangladesh

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1956

Tareque Masud (6 December 1956 – 13 August 2011) was a Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist.

Masud was born on 6 December 1956 in Nurpur village, Bhanga Upazila, Faridpur District, East Pakistan.

He grew up in Nurpur village and started his education in an Islamic school (madrasah).

1971

He studied in the madrassa system for eight years, until the upheaval brought about by the 9-month Liberation War interrupted his education in 1971.

After the war, he entered general education, completing his HSC from Notre Dame College and completed his master's degree in history from the University of Dhaka.

1982

Tareque was involved in the film society movement from his university days and started his first film, Adam Surat (The Inner Strength), a documentary on the Bangladeshi painter SM Sultan, in 1982.

1986

In 1986, Tareque was a founding member of Bangladesh Short Film Forum, the leading platform for independent filmmakers in Bangladesh.

1988

In 1988, he organized the country's first International Short and Documentary Film Festival, which is held on a biannual basis to this day.

He was also known as the "Cinema Feriwalla" for the way in which he showed his films, touring remote towns and villages throughout the country with his mobile projection unit.

His wife, an American-born film editor Catherine Masud, was his creative partner.

They met at the time he was completing work on Adam Surat and spent the next two decades making films together through their production house Audiovision.

Together they wrote scripts, often co-directed, and toured the country and the world with their films.

Catherine also edited all of their work.

1989

Masud's first film was the documentary Adam Surat (Inner Strength) on the Bangladeshi painter SM Sultan which he completed in 1989.

1995

He first found success with the films Muktir Gaan (1995) and Matir Moina (2002), for which he won three international awards, including the International Critics' FIPRESCI Prize, in the Directors' Fortnight at 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

The film became Bangladesh's first film to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

His 1995 feature-length documentary on the 1971 Liberation War, Muktir Gaan (Song of Freedom), brought record audiences and became a cult classic.

His most famous film in the early age of his career was the documentary Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom, 1995) where the camera follows a music troupe during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

The members of the troupe sing songs to inspire freedom fighters.

1999

He also made many other films on the war, including Muktir Kotha (Words of Freedom, 1999), Narir Kotha (Women and War, 2000) and Naroshundor (The Barbershop, 2009).

2002

In 2002, he completed his feature film Matir Moina (The Clay Bird), which was based on his childhood experience in the madrassa.

As a part of his filmmaking work, he was a pioneer of the independent film movement in Bangladesh.

His first full-length feature film, Matir Moina ("The Clay Bird", 2002) which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, derives inspiration from his own childhood experiences.

He won the International Critic's Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 for this film, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize for Directors' Fortnight for "its authentic, moving and delicate portrayal of a country struggling for its democratic rights."

Matir Moina was received with critical praise and toured the international circuit.

It was one of the first Bangladeshi films to be widely circulated and was greeted with enthusiasm for its realistic depiction of life without the melodrama that is prevalent in many other South Asian films.

This film has become a prequel to Matir Moina (2002).

Masud and Catherine Shapere have a son, Nishad Bingham Putra Masud.

2006

His film, Ontarjatra ("Homeland", 2006), featured two generations of Bangladeshi diaspora in London and their return to Bangladesh.

2010

His next feature film, Runway (2010) was about the influence of radical religious teachings on a young boy, caught between many modernistic.

Masud's last unfinished project was Kagojer Phool ("The Paper Flower"), about the partition of the Indian subcontinent.

2011

Masud died in a road accident on 13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a filming location.

Masud was working on Kagojer Phool (The Paper Flower).

On 13 August 2011, Masud died in a road accident at Joka under Ghior Upazila while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a shooting location.

His microbus collided head-on with an oncoming passenger bus.

He along with the other passengers were travelling to choose shooting locations for his new film Kagojer Phool (The Paper Flower), filming of which was supposed to begin after shooting locations were finalized.

Masud was travelling with long-time co-worker Mishuk Munier, a cinematographer, journalist and CEO of ATN News.

Munier also died in the accident.

2012

In 2012, he posthumously received Ekushey Padak, the second highest civilian award of Bangladesh.

2013

In 2013, New York University Asian/Pacific/American Institute, and South Asia Solidarity Initiative, hosted the first North American retrospective of his films.