Fahmim Ferdous

This year is already proving to be a good year for Bangla cinema, with a number of promising films lined up.

On a wintry day at Santiniketan in 1931, one Suprova Debi brought her 10-year old son to be graced by the blessing of Rabindranath Tagore.

Oliver Stone, the master of political drama is back after a hiatus, and with the help of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is sending chills down the spines of viewers in the first trailer of “Snowden”.

First look of upcoming film “Bhuban Majhi” is released online, and although it’s just a teaser, the Parambrata-Aparna starrer already looks seriously promising.

An in-depth, engaging multimedia exhibition on our Liberation War, titled “1971: Emergence of a Nation”, is currently on at the National Art Gallery of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and curated by Amitabh Dewry, the exhibit opened on March 19. Abul

From a simple small town girl with dreams of becoming a singer, she became one of the biggest film stars of her era. And much like the action heroine roles that she made a name for herself with in the '90s, Parveen Sultana Diti was a fearless fighter for most of her life, until the battle with brain cancer got too big on her on March 20, just 11 days before her 51st birthday.

Anticipation has been building up for the past couple of weeks surrounding Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's latest project “Doob” (titled “No

Humayun Ahmed reached unmatched heights as a storyteller in his lifetime, not just with his books but his film adaptations as well. And while his films were taken to the big screen by other directors (starting with “Shongkhoneel Karagar”, “Nondityo Noroke” to this year's “Anil Bagchi'r Ekdin”), they have never been quite at the level of those Humayun directed himself.

Chirkutt has been in the country's music scene for nearly a decade and a half now, although their rise to fame has

Alejandro G Iñárritu picked up his second Best Director Oscar for “The Revenant” (making him only the third director with back to back wins) but his film “The Revenant” lost out to “Spotlight” in the Best Picture Race, and Leonardo DiCaprio ended a 23-year wait since his first nomination to pick up an Oscar, on his sixth nod, for his gritty, grimacing role of Hugh Glass in Iñárritu's revenge film.

The academy award is not essentially the ultimate hallmark of Hollywood greatness; pop singer Cher has an acting Oscar while Peter Lorre, Joseph Cotton, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Gere, Samuel L Jackson, Brian Cox, Winona Ryder, Harrison Ford, Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise do not have one. And until yesterday morning Bangladesh time, nor did Leonardo DiCaprio.

1952 was 64 years ago; today's youth is somewhere around the third generation of the Language Movement activists and martyrs. Still,

The names Shaju Kazi and Saef Al Nazi may not be instantly recognisable to the country's youth, but to anyone who followed urban Bangla music in the 2000s and beyond, 'Shaju and Shezan from Artcell' will ring a familiar bell. The drummer and bassist of the progressive rock band that inspired a generation of musicians and listeners left to pursue higher studies to Australia, and have been under the radar for a few years now. But when they announced a return to Bangladesh's music on Monday, it was very different in terms of capacity but potentially similar to their impact as musicians.

The third Dhaka Art Summit is in full swing at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, and will continue till 9pm tomorrow. The Daily Star caught up with the mastermind of this massive international event, the founder of the Samdani Art Foundation.

In Narayanpur, a quaint little village in Satkhira's Tala upazila, a small colony of a few families struggle with water-logging for eight to

David Bowie's love affair with music that began with listening to artistes like Little Richard and Elvis Presley took him on an unmatched journey that, if condensed, would still fill up entire pages of a newspaper.

Adit, the music-director-singer, has had some success in commercial films “Rajotto” and “Dehorokkhi” with his production banner Fatman Films...

Deepika Padukone has been at the top of the chain in Bollywood for a good few years now, and when Hollywood bad boy Vin Diesel posted a photo on Instagram in December with Deepika,

The biggest happenings of 2014 come up in the images: be it the political crises in Ukraine or Gaza, the dissolution of the Arab Spring...

Hollywood has just had its biggest year, with a mindboggling accumulation of $11 billion – the biggest ever tally, and it does not look