
Acting
Gazi Rakayet
Born 1966-06-15 · Bangladesh
Gazi Rakayet is a Bangladeshi actor, director and writer. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Dialogue and Best Story for the film Mrittika Maya (2013). He also earned the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in the film Anil Bagchir Ekdin (2015).
Acting credits
NRFour women are pushed to their breaking point in Dhaka’s underbelly, where the only way to survive systemic exploitation is to stop being the prey and start being the threat.
Pressure Cooker
2026
7.0A solitary middle aged man marries a madwoman and builds a house on a vacant plot of land far from the village. However, his wife’s madness becomes a calamity in his tranquil life.
Roid
2026
NRSet in 16th century Eastern Bengal, the film is inspired by the life of Chandrabati, Bengal`s first feminist poet. The story follows her falling in love with another poet, Jayananda, who later leaves her for another woman. The betrayal pushes Chandrabati to renounce marriage, confine herself inside a Shiva temple and start rewriting the Ramayana - an act which eventually led to her becoming a historic figure.
The Tales of Chandrabati
2020
7.9A group of masked assailants storms the office of the country’s top television channel, taking the staff and a prominent minister, who was there for an interview, hostage. While the nation's law enforcement agencies race to uncover the identity of the mastermind behind the attack, the mastermind reveals himself live on the channel’s program, exposing the stories of ordinary people who have fallen victim to high-level corruption. Thus begins a rampage against the injustices of the system.
Taandob
2025
NRBased on Qazi Anwar Hussain's novel series Masud Rana aka MR-9.
Masud Rana
2026
6.0How far would you go, and what would you risk for the one you love? What drives Ananya, a city girl, to this distant village and where will her journey lead?
Lifeline
2026
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bonolata Sen
2026
7.0Hasan has left behind his dark past to lead a happy family life with his wife and two daughters. One night, posing as law enforcement officers, a group abruptly takes him from his home, casting a shroud of dreadful uncertainty over the entire family.
Amalnama
2025
6.6Nishan spent more than twelve years behind bars. The story begins as he steps out of prison, only to find that the world he left behind has changed drastically. Society refuses to accept him as one of its own. Thus begins Nishan's struggle to survive in an unfamiliar world.
Daagi
2025
6.0Shirja Mia is grave digger. He begs from village to village to get death news. Now he has only two things in his life. One is a doll which he bought for his daughter and other is a number which he has got from his ancestors. His ancestors believed that if someone could dig hundred graves he would surely be placed in heaven. But no one could ever reach the target. When shirja was young he came to a Char and got married. They had a lovely daughter named Rahela. He had to go to town for work. Rahela asked for a doll from the town. One day Shirja bought a doll, but he couldn't come back to Char due to bad weather. Next day he heard that the tidal bore had washed out the Char. Later he came back to Char. But he didn't find his daughter and wife anywhere. The Char was full of dead bodies. At that time he started digging graves. When one grave left to reach the hundredth, he falls in big crisis with a girl like his daughter. Will Shirja be able to complete one hundred graves?
The Grave
2020
5.0Mr. Rafiq is given an option to develop the ancestral property by a privet developer agent. The house carries the style of typical historic buildings of old Dhaka; which are being pushed aside by urban modernization. With the decision hanging, Ruba, his daughter, leaves her husband in the US and returns to Dhaka. The cause being her husband's excessive misbehave. Ruba tries to find peace in her memory soaked old home but could not as the decision to reconstruct the property is discussed and debated over and over again. Another character, Soleman, obedient servant of Mr. Rafiq becomes irritating to Ruba since he has a rivalry with the local power holders. As Ruba seeks her memories in the home, she occasionally watches a man on a neighboring flat. The man notices this. With the man's efforts they finally get to be friends. But the orthodox mindset of the father desperately looks for ways to stop the developing relationship or perhaps a new hope for Ruba.
Aha!
2007
6.5Biopic on the father of the nation of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The film will showcase his growing up as a child to his standing up against all injustice in his youth to fighting for the independence of his country. How he led a country to it's independence with his inspirational presence and fight for the justice.
Mujib: The Making of a Nation
2023
NRThe first film made in Bangladesh about Cerebral Palsy.
See the Person
2026
NROn a dark night, Khosru gets trapped in blackmail and tense questions on a rooftop. Suddenly, Sara hears a terrifying scream. Was it only an accident, or did something much more frightening happen that night?
Sarar Shongshar
2026
No synopsis available yet.
Nomuna
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NRDuring the Liberation War of Bangladesh, a college teacher who shelters his friend's cousin fall in love with the girl.
Dollhouse
2006
NRThe film will highlight the struggles of women in the circus. In the film, Jaya Ahsan performs amazing acrobatics—with such feats as walking over a tightrope.
Beauty Circus
2022
5.3A lone gun-man enters a typical Bangladeshi town to find his identity and take revenge on the person who raped his mother during the war. In the course of revenge he is used by the internal clash of two rival leaders of the town.
The Last Thakur
2008
10.0During the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh, in a remote village, a landlord collaborated with the Pakistani army. After the death of his brother, he married his sister-in-law who had a young son. A teacher in the village, with a widowed daughter, taught the young man had a daughter. When the war broke out, the young man joined the Bengali guerrillas, shattering his innocence. In the village, the landlord's action get worse and worse, until he kills the teacher and compels the daughter to marry him. Now the young man must return to his village with new determination.
The River Named Modhumoti
1996
6.8The story of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
My Friend Rashed
2011
NRPriotomeshu (My Darling) is a Bangladeshi film by director Morshedul Islam.
Love and Repulsion
2009
8.0A Hindu man caught in the midst of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 risks his life to see his sister.
A Day in the Life of Anil Bagchi
2015
NRAn aspiring social worker is torn between adopting a child and being a spouse.
Glow of the Firefly
2014
NRA young boy becomes a silent listener to lonely strangers who share their unspoken pain and emotions, forming unexpected human connections in Keno Ei Songgota.
Keno Ei Shongota
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Behind the camera
6.0Shirja Mia is grave digger. He begs from village to village to get death news. Now he has only two things in his life. One is a doll which he bought for his daughter and other is a number which he has got from his ancestors. His ancestors believed that if someone could dig hundred graves he would surely be placed in heaven. But no one could ever reach the target. When shirja was young he came to a Char and got married. They had a lovely daughter named Rahela. He had to go to town for work. Rahela asked for a doll from the town. One day Shirja bought a doll, but he couldn't come back to Char due to bad weather. Next day he heard that the tidal bore had washed out the Char. Later he came back to Char. But he didn't find his daughter and wife anywhere. The Char was full of dead bodies. At that time he started digging graves. When one grave left to reach the hundredth, he falls in big crisis with a girl like his daughter. Will Shirja be able to complete one hundred graves?
The Grave
2020
6.0Shirja Mia is grave digger. He begs from village to village to get death news. Now he has only two things in his life. One is a doll which he bought for his daughter and other is a number which he has got from his ancestors. His ancestors believed that if someone could dig hundred graves he would surely be placed in heaven. But no one could ever reach the target. When shirja was young he came to a Char and got married. They had a lovely daughter named Rahela. He had to go to town for work. Rahela asked for a doll from the town. One day Shirja bought a doll, but he couldn't come back to Char due to bad weather. Next day he heard that the tidal bore had washed out the Char. Later he came back to Char. But he didn't find his daughter and wife anywhere. The Char was full of dead bodies. At that time he started digging graves. When one grave left to reach the hundredth, he falls in big crisis with a girl like his daughter. Will Shirja be able to complete one hundred graves?
The Grave
2020
6.0Shirja Mia is grave digger. He begs from village to village to get death news. Now he has only two things in his life. One is a doll which he bought for his daughter and other is a number which he has got from his ancestors. His ancestors believed that if someone could dig hundred graves he would surely be placed in heaven. But no one could ever reach the target. When shirja was young he came to a Char and got married. They had a lovely daughter named Rahela. He had to go to town for work. Rahela asked for a doll from the town. One day Shirja bought a doll, but he couldn't come back to Char due to bad weather. Next day he heard that the tidal bore had washed out the Char. Later he came back to Char. But he didn't find his daughter and wife anywhere. The Char was full of dead bodies. At that time he started digging graves. When one grave left to reach the hundredth, he falls in big crisis with a girl like his daughter. Will Shirja be able to complete one hundred graves?
The Grave
2020
NRThe first film made in Bangladesh about Cerebral Palsy.
See the Person
2026
NRKhirmohon is an old man and a potter by profession. All his life, he has struggled to keep his head above water and now is the owner of his own pottery house and a banyan tree. His two sons Satten and Nikhil stay in the city and prefer urban life. They have no interest in their father's business and want to sell up his life's work for financial gain. The silver lining in Khirmohon's life is his granddaughter Poddo, who is an eye catching dusky beauty. They stay in their village house with another person named Boishakh, who was adopted by Khirmohon when he was just a mere child. Boishakh is a passionate character, who is loyal to Khirmohon and is more interested in keeping the pottery business afloat then Khirmohon's own sons. There is a spark between Poddo and Boishakh, but it is not expressed. The story moves forward with Boishakh trying to protect the business from going into ruins by unwanted invaders and village politics.
Earthen Love
2013