1. Tareque Masud was a Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist.
17 Facts About Tareque Masud
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Tareque Masud first found success with the films Muktir Gaan and Matir Moina, for which he won three international awards, including the International Critics' FIPRESCI Prize, in the Directors' Fortnight at 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
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Tareque Masud was born on 6 December 1956 in Nurpur village, Bhanga Upazila, Faridpur District, East Pakistan.
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Tareque Masud grew up in Nurpur village and started his education in an Islamic school.
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Tareque Masud studied in the madrassa system for eight years, until the upheaval brought about by the 9-month Liberation War interrupted his education in 1971.
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Tareque Masud was involved in the film society movement from his university days and started his first film, Adam Surat, a documentary on the Bangladeshi painter SM Sultan, in 1982.
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Tareque Masud made many other films on the war, including Muktir Kotha, Narir Kotha and Naroshundor.
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In 1986, Tareque Masud was a founding member of Bangladesh Short Film Forum, the leading platform for independent filmmakers in Bangladesh.
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Tareque Masud was 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.
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Tareque Masud's wife, an American-born film editor Catherine Masud, was his creative partner.
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On 13 August 2011, Tareque 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.
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Tareque Masud's microbus collided head-on with an oncoming passenger bus.
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Tareque Masud was travelling with long-time co-worker Mishuk Munier, a cinematographer, journalist and CEO of ATN News.
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Tareque Masud was received many international and national awards for his notable works.
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Tareque Masud received Best Film Award from Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards in 1996 and a Special Jury Prize from Festival of South Asian Documentaries in 1997 and a National Award for Documentary film Muktir Gaan.
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Tareque Masud received an International Critics' FIPRESCI Prize, in the Directors' Fortnight section outside competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
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Tareque Masud has frequently cast the same actors more than once in films that he has directed.