Mostofa Sarwar Farooki

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and film producer. Farooki is considered one of the leading figures to bring modernism/realism in Bangladeshi cinema. His works often switch between a real and quasi-real world.

Television (2012)

A devout village leader prohibits an array of modern devices, but when his strict measures go too far, the locals rise up in popular rebellion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Chanchal Chowdhury  •  Mosharraf Karim  •  Nusrat Imrose Tisha  •  Shahir Huda Rumi

A devout village leader prohibits an array of modern devices, but when his strict measures go too far, the locals rise up in popular rebellion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Chanchal Chowdhury  •  Mosharraf Karim  •  Nusrat Imrose Tisha  •  Shahir Huda Rumi

Third Person Singular Number (2009)

A woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Nusrat Imrose Tisha  •  Mosharraf Karim  •  Rashed Uddin Ahmed Topu  •  Abul Hayat

A woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Nusrat Imrose Tisha  •  Mosharraf Karim  •  Rashed Uddin Ahmed Topu  •  Abul Hayat

Piprabidya (2013)

After realizing his stolen phone belongs to a famous actress, a scheming daydreamer uses the opportunity to blackmail her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Sheena Chohan  •  Nur Imran Mithu  •  Sabbir Hasan Likhon  •  Mohini Mow

After realizing his stolen phone belongs to a famous actress, a scheming daydreamer uses the opportunity to blackmail her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Sheena Chohan  •  Nur Imran Mithu  •  Sabbir Hasan Likhon  •  Mohini Mow

No Bed of Roses (2017)

As a noted filmmaker’s infidelity becomes a media firestorm, his fractured family privately navigates the fallout of his actions for years to come.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Irrfan Khan  •  Parno Mittra  •  Nusrat Imrose Tisha  •  Rokeya Prachy

As a noted filmmaker’s infidelity becomes a media firestorm, his fractured family privately navigates the fallout of his actions for years to come.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Irrfan Khan  •  Parno Mittra  •  Nusrat Imrose Tisha  •  Rokeya Prachy

Saturday Afternoon (2019)

An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Parambrata Chatterjee  •  Nusrat Imrose Tisha  •  Ellie Poussot  •  Selina Black

An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Parambrata Chatterjee  •  Nusrat Imrose Tisha  •  Ellie Poussot  •  Selina Black

Vocatta (1999)

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's second film. It was made for television.  (more)

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Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's second film. It was made for television.  (more)

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Choruivati (2002)

An engineering student is attracted to a professor while his best friend is in love with him.  (more)

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An engineering student is attracted to a professor while his best friend is in love with him.  (more)

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Bachelor: The Circle (2004)

Intertwined story of a group of friends living together and their romantic complications.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Ferdous Ahmed  •  Jaya Ahsan  •  Moutushi Biswas  •  Humayun Faridi

Intertwined story of a group of friends living together and their romantic complications.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Ferdous Ahmed  •  Jaya Ahsan  •  Moutushi Biswas  •  Humayun Faridi

Mad_e in Bangladesh (2007)

An apparently passive young man comes to Dhaka from a rural area looking for a job and a better life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Zahid Hasan  •  Shahiduzzaman Selim  •  Tariq Anam Khan  •  Masud Ali Khan

An apparently passive young man comes to Dhaka from a rural area looking for a job and a better life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Zahid Hasan  •  Shahiduzzaman Selim  •  Tariq Anam Khan  •  Masud Ali Khan

No Land's Man (2021)

In 2019, a man named Naveen disappears from a memorial park in Sydney while traveling with his girlfriend Cathy. Having arrived in New York two years ago, Naveen finds a job at a restaurant and meets Cathy there. As their relationship deepens, Naveen′s lies become ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Nawazuddin Siddiqui  •  Eisha Chopra  •  Vikram Kochhar  •  Holly Fraser

In 2019, a man named Naveen disappears from a memorial park in Sydney while traveling with his girlfriend Cathy. Having arrived in New York two years ago, Naveen finds a job at a restaurant and meets Cathy there. As their relationship deepens, Naveen′s lies become ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Nawazuddin Siddiqui  •  Eisha Chopra  •  Vikram Kochhar  •  Holly Fraser

Spartacus '71 (2005)

A story of a family during the 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh and their family getting punished by the ruthless Pakistani soldiers. Mahbub, a Bengali himself, is supporting Pakistan in order to save himself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Nafiza Jahan  •  Kochi Khondokar  •  Shahir Huda Rumi  •  Monira Mithu

A story of a family during the 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh and their family getting punished by the ruthless Pakistani soldiers. Mahbub, a Bengali himself, is supporting Pakistan in order to save himself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
CAST:  Nafiza Jahan  •  Kochi Khondokar  •  Shahir Huda Rumi  •  Monira Mithu