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{{Infobox person
| name = Tanvir Mokammel
| native_name = তানভীর মোকাম্মেল
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Tanvir Mokammel (cropped).jpg
| caption = Mokammel in 2017
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1955|3|8}}
| birth_place = [[Khulna]], [[East Pakistan]], Pakistan (present day [[Bangladesh]])
| education = [[University of Dhaka]]
| occupation = filmmaker, writer
| years_active = 1984–present
| website = {{url|www.tanvirmokammel.com}}
}}
'''Tanvir Mokammel''' (born 8 March 1955) is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and writer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/infotainment/2013/jun/12/i-had-dream-team-jibondhuli-tanvir-mokammel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305105859/http://www.dhakatribune.com/infotainment/2013/jun/12/i-had-dream-team-jibondhuli-tanvir-mokammel|archive-date=2016-03-05|title= I had a dream team in Jibondhuli: Tanvir Mokammel|newspaper=Dhaka Tribune|date=2013-06-12|accessdate=2019-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ucfilms.in/category/director/tanvir-mokammel/|title= Tanvir Mokammel|publisher=ucfilms.in|accessdate=20 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-95576|title=Tanvir Mokammel films screened in Morocco|date=2009-07-05|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-06-13|language=en}}</ref> He is the recipient of [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/17-named-ekushey-padak-2017-1360108|title=17 named for Ekushey Padak 2017|date=2017-02-12|accessdate=2017-02-12|newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> He won [[Bangladesh National Film Awards]] total ten times for the films ''[[Nodir Naam Modhumoti]]'' (1995), ''[[Chitra Nodir Pare]]'' (1999) and ''[[Lalsalu (film)|Lalsalu]]'' (2001).<ref name=nfa>{{cite web|url=http://www.fdc.gov.bd/site/page/f3bb17fe-d9ad-4b61-bd8a-5824262691ad/১৯৭৫-২০১২|script-title=bn:জাতীয় চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার প্রাপ্তদের নামের তালিকা (১৯৭৫-২০১২)|language=bn|trans-title=List of the winners of National Film Awards (1975-2012)|website=Bangladesh Film Development Corporation|publisher=Government of Bangladesh|access-date=25 March 2022}}</ref> He is the current director of Bangladesh Film Institute in Dhaka.<ref name=Chalachchitram/>

==Early life and education==
Tanvir Mokammel grew up in [[Khulna]].<ref name=conv>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/rendering-the-great-sense-loss-1947-through-film-1452523|title=Rendering the great sense of loss of 1947 through film|date=2017-08-25|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-06-13|language=en}}</ref> His father worked as a magistrate in [[Narail]] and his mother was a teacher in a local college.<ref name=conv/> He completed his master's in English literature at the [[University of Dhaka]].<ref name=Chalachchitram>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-12748|title=Tanvir Mokammel receives 'Chalachchitram Padak'|date=2007-11-24|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-06-13|language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
Since he was a university student, Mokammel worked as a [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] journalist for landless peasants in rural areas.<ref name=short>{{Cite web|url=http://tanvirmokammel.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35|title=A short profile of Tanvir Mokammel|last=Islam|first=Nazrul|website=tanvirmokammel.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-06-13}}</ref> As a filmmaker he has made six full-length features and fifteen documentaries and short films, some of which have received national and international awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tanvirmokammel.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30|title=Awards|last=Islam|first=Nazrul|website=tanvirmokammel.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-06-13}}</ref>

His feature films are ''"[[Nodir Naam Modhumoti]]"'' ''(The River Named Modhumati)'', ''"[[Chitra Nodir Pare]]"'' ''(Quiet Flows the River Chitra)'', ''"[[Lalsalu (film)|Lalsalu]]"'' ''(A Tree Without Roots)'', ''"[[Lalon (film)|Lalon]]"'' , ''"Rabeya"'' ''(The Sister)'', and ''"Jibondhuli"'' ''(The Drummer)''. Tanvir Mokammel's prominent documentaries are ''"The Garment Girls of Bangladesh"'', ''"The Unknown Bard"'', ''"Teardrops of Karnaphuli"'', ''"Riders to the Sunderbans"'', ''"A Tale of the Jamuna River"'', ''"The Promised Land"'', ''"Tajuddin Ahmad :An Unsung Hero"'', ''"The Japanese Wife"'', ''"[[Swapnabhumi]]"'' and mega-documentary ''"1971"''. His movies ''"Nadir Naam Modhumati"'' ''(The River Named Modhumati)'' and ''"[[Chitra Nodir Pare]]"'' ''(Quiet Flows the River Chitra)'' ranked second and third respectively in the list of 10 best [[Cinema of Bangladesh|Bangladeshi films]], in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the [[British Film Institute]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/bangladesh/index.html|title=Top 10 Bangladeshi films|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=21 January 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527232052/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/bangladesh/index.html|archivedate=27 May 2022}}</ref>

Mokammel has written poems, short stories, and newspaper articles on cinema and cultural issues. Tanvir Mokammel's important books are ''"A Brief History of World Cinema"'', ''"The Art of Cinema"'', ''"Charlie Chaplin: Conquests by a Tramp"'', ''"Syed Waliullah, Sisyphus and Quest of Tradition in Novel"'' (a work of literary criticism), ''"Grundtvig and Folk Education"'' (a book on alternative educational ideas), and a translation of Maxim Gorky's play ''"The Lower Depths"''.<ref name=short/>

Mokammel established a film institute called Bangladesh Film Centre.<ref name=Chalachchitram/>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="width:5%" |Year
! style="width:17%" |Title
! style="width:17%" |English Title
! style="width:12%" |Contribution
! class="unsortable"|Notes
|-
| 1984
| ''Hooliya''
| ''Wanted''
| Script/Direction
| An experimental short feature film based on a political poem by poet [[Nirmalendu Goon]]
|-
| 1991
| ''Smriti Ekattor''
| ''Remembrance of ’71''
| Script/Direction
| A documentary on the [[1971 Bangladesh genocide|massacre on Bengalis in 1971]].
|-
| 1993
| ''Ekti Golir Atyakahini''
| ''Tale of a Lane''
| Script/Direction
| A documentary on the life and the present condition of the Hindu conch shell makers of old Dhaka
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1996
| ''[[Nodir Naam Modhumoti]]''
| ''The River Named Modhumati''
| Script/Direction
| A feature film on the backdrop of the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|Bangladesh liberation war]] in 1971.
Received three national awards for best story, best dialogue and best song. Shown in Tri-Continental Film Festival, [[Nantes]], France.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
|-
| ''Achin Pakhi''
| ''The Unknown Bird''
| Script/Direction
| A documentary film on the ''[[Bauls]].''
|-
| ''Swapnar School''
| ''A School for Swapna''
| Script/Direction
| A documentary on the alternative schools for the poor adults
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1999
| ''[[Chitra Nodir Pare]]''
| ''Quiet Flows The River Chitra''
| Script/Direction
| Won - [[National Film Awards (Bangladesh)|National Film Awards]] in 7 category including [[Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Film|Best Film]].
|-
| ''Images And Impressions''
| ''Images And Impressions''||Script/Direction
| A documentary on the ideals of the Folk High Schools in Denmark.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Lalsalu (film)|Lalsalu]]''
| ''A Tree Without Roots''
| Script/Direction
| Won - [[National Film Awards (Bangladesh)|National Film Award]] in 7 category including [[Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Film|Best Film]].
|-
| 2002
| ''Oie Jamuna''
| ''A Tale of the Jamuna River''||Script/Direction
|
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Lalon (film)|Lalon]]''
| ''Lalon''
| Script/Direction
| A Feature film on [[Lalon Shah]]. Won - [[National Film Awards (Bangladesh)|National Film Award]] for Best Art Direction
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2005
| ''Karnaphulir Kanna''
| ''Teardrops Of Karnaphuli''
| Script/Direction
| A documentary on the plight of the Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Mrung and other indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The documentary was banned by the government of Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mokammel reacts sharply at ban of his documentary Karnaphulir Kanna |url=https://bdnews24.com/lifestyle/2005/08/20/mokammel-reacts-sharply-at-ban-of-his-documentary-karnaphulir-kanna1 |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=bdnews24.com}}</ref>
|-
| ''Bonojatri''
| ''Riders To The Sunderbans''||Script/Direction
| A documentary film on the ''Sunderbans''
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2007
| ''Bostrobalikara''
| ''Garment Girls of Bangladesh''
| Script/Direction
| Won- Best documentary film of the year by Bangladesh Federation of Film Societies.
|-
| ''Nissonga Sarathi''
| ''Tajuddin Ahmad: An Unsung Hero''
| Script/Direction
| A documentary about [[Tajuddin Ahmad]], the first premier of Bangladesh.
|-
| ''[[Swapnabhumi]]''
| ''The Promised Land''
| Script/Direction
| Won - Second Best Documentary Film by Film South Asia Film Festival, 2009, Nepal.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Rabeya (2008 film)|Rabeya]]''
| ''The Sister''
| Script/Direction
| A deconstruction of Sophocles's play “[[Antigone (Sophocles)|''Antigone'']]” on the backdrop of the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971.
|-
| 2011
| ''1971''
| ''1971''
| Script/Direction
| A mega-documentary on the liberation war of Bangladesh.
|-
| 2012
| ''Japani Bodhu''
| ''The Japanese Wife''
| Script/Direction
| A documentary on [[Hariprobha Takeda]], the first Bengali woman who wrote a travelogue on Japan and used to read Bengali news from Tokyo Radio for Subash Bose's [[Azad Hind Fauz]].''{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Jibondhuli]]''
| ''The Drummer''||Script/Direction
| A feature film on the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971.
|-
| 2017
| ''Seemantorekha''
| ''The Borderline''||Script/Direction
| A documentary film on the [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|Partition of Bengal in 1947]].
|-
|2020
|''[[Rupsha Nodir Banke]]''
|''Quite flows the river Rupsha''||Script/Direction
|A biographical film on the life of a leftist
|}

==Awards and honors ==
Mokammel received [[Ekushey Padak]], the second highest civilian award in 2017 for notable contribution in Bengali film.{{r|EP-2022}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! style="width:25%"| Award
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1995
| rowspan="9"| [[National Film Award (Bangladesh)|National Film Award]]
| [[Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Story|Best Story]]
| rowspan="2"| ''[[Nodir Naam Modhumoti]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Dialogue|Best Dialogue]]
| {{won}}
|-
|rowspan=4|1999
| [[Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| rowspan=4|''[[Chitra Nodir Pare]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| {{won}}
|-
| Best Story
| {{won}}
|-
| Best Dialogue
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |2001
| Best Film
| rowspan="3"|''[[Lalsalu (film)|Lalsalu]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| Best Director
| {{won}}
|-
| Best Dialogue
| {{won}}
|-
| 2007
| Chalachchitram Padak<ref name=Chalachchitram/>
|
|
| {{won}}
|}

==Publications==
#''Chalachitra Nondontottwo o Barojon Director'' (''Film Aesthetics and Twelve Directors''); 1985, Sahitya Prakashoni, {{isbn|9789844250208}}
#''Chalachitra'' (''Film''); 1987, [[Bangla Academy]]
#''Marxbad O Sahitya'' (''Marxism and Literature'')
#''Syed Waliullah, Sisyphus and Quest for Tradition in Novel''; 1988, Muktodhara.
#''Nitchutalar Manush'', translation of [[Maxim Gorky]]'s play The Lower Depths; 1997, [[Bishwo Shahitto Kendro]], {{isbn|9841800667}} .
#''Charlie Chaplin: Triumph of the Tramp'' ''(Bhabaghurer Digbijoy)'', in Bengali, on the life and craft of Charlie Chaplin as an actor and film-maker, Sahitya Prakasoni, 1996.
#''Grundtvig and Gonoshikhsa'', a book on the theories of alternative education for the downtrodden and disadvantaged people of the rural areas, 1997.
#''Art of Cinema'' ''(Cinemar Shilparup)'', in Bengali, a collection of essays on different aspects of the aesthetics of cinema, 1998, [[Agamee Prakashani]]

==References==
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}}

==External links==
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