To mark the month of Victory, the Liberation War–based film “Nakshikathar Jamin”, directed by Akram Khan and starring Jaya Ahsan, is set to return to the big screen.

For Khairul Anam Shakil, celebrating five decades of music is not just a personal milestone; it is a reflection of Bangladesh’s cultural heartbeat. As a celebrated Nazrul Sangeet exponent and General Secretary of the Bangladesh Nazrul Sangeet Sangstha (BNSS), Shakil has devoted his life to teaching, performing, and preserving the legacy of Kazi Nazrul Islam.

The consultation brought together distinguished representatives from government, private, and other music institutions across Dhaka and divisional levels.

Popular actor Ziaul Faruq Apurba and his wife, Trisha Dewan Faruque, have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl named Anaya.

“Lost Land” premiered earlier this year in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival and features an entirely non-professional cast. It was produced by Kazutaka Watanabe, Angèle de Lorme, Sujauddin Karimuddin, Elise Shick and Christian Jilka—an international team whose collaboration underscores the borderless urgency of the Rohingya crisis.

The festival — a joint initiative of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU), the Mohanagar Natya Sangsad, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Literary and Cultural Centre — runs from Thursday through Saturday and is timed to coincide with Victory Day commemorations.

Actor Sadia Islam Mou, though not a regular on screen, often appears in special television projects tied to national occasions. This year, she returns to television with a Victory Day special drama titled “Doctor Bari”, set to air on Channel i on December 16 at 7:50pm.

The three-year deal will allow Sora to create short, user-generated videos featuring more than 200 popular Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters.

Fan outrage intensified yesterday after Atif Aslam announced that his much-anticipated Dhaka concert had been cancelled. Until his statement, Main Stage Inc,  the organisers of “X Force Presents Atif Aslam at Main Stage Show Powered by Foodi” continued urging fans to buy tickets, repeatedly posting reminders such as “Final 4 Hours Left” and “Last 60 Minutes” before ticket sales closed.

In this series of mixed media on paper on his own native histories and legacies, Firoz Mahmud draws on the histories of his home in the Bengal region, where many communities and their cultural sites, agriculture, and industries have been transformed by constant colonisations over nearly 2,000 years. Although the rulers of the region legendarily staved off an attack by Alexander the Great in 325 BCE with a cavalcade of elephants, the people and fertile land of the greater Bengal region — spanning present-day Bangladesh and India — have endured continuous waves of military invasion and civil war, including the Islamic conquest led by the Ghurid general Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, the Mughal annexation during the reign of Emperor Babur, the defeat of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah by the British East India Company, and later, large-scale intercontinental migrations following the Partition of Bengal along the Radcliffe Line and the subsequent Bangladesh Liberation War.

For Sunny, the film is not “urgent” — a word he resists — but it offers a revision of political history told through lived experience rather than rhetoric. “We’ve been mistreated by the British, by India, by Pakistan, by our own governments. These layers flow through the film. If it does anything, it helps us see where we stand politically, socially, and economically. And honestly, no one needs to watch a film. Sometimes not watching is the best choice.”

Despite Atif Aslam publicly confirming his return to Bangladesh and organisers repeatedly assuring fans that the show would proceed as planned, the much-anticipated “X Force presents Atif Aslam at Main Stage” concert has been called off.

In 2025, fandom is a central part of storytelling, and studios and creators design worlds that fans can live in, expand, debate, and emotionally inhabit. Stories are co-owned and these fandoms are where ownership is vocalised.

More than 50 acclaimed artistes from India and around the world are set to convene at Mumbai’s National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) for “Maestro Forever”, a two-day tribute commemorating the first death anniversary of legendary tabla maestro Zakir Hussain.

The ‘24th Young Artist Fine Arts Exhibition 2025’ opens today at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, featuring 215 artworks by 191 emerging artists from across the country.

Jeff Garcia, the American voice actor best known for playing Sheen Estevez in the Jimmy Neutron franchise, has died at the age of 50.

“Tribunal”, a courtroom drama based on a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2001, is nearing completion with about 75 percent of its filming wrapped. The film explores the fraught intersection of justice, morality and political influence.

The year opened in a slump: eight January–February titles drifted through cinemas with little audience interest and almost no critical chatter. Then Eid-ul-Fitr arrived on April 1, and the box office finally showed signs of life.

Afran Nisho has opened up about the physically demanding and weather-challenged shoot of his upcoming film “Domm” in Kazakhstan, describing how the cast and crew pushed through harsh conditions to complete the schedule on time. The actor returned to Dhaka on December 6—just in time for his birthday on December 8—surprising fans who had assumed he would miss this year’s celebrations.

With the national election approaching, Hamin Ahmed, a leading member of the popular band Miles, has called on political parties to present clear plans for music and culture in their election manifestos.