Tareque Masud Film director Tareque Masud was a Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist.

1. A power Point Présentation on

2. • Tareque Masud was one of the best film maker
of our country. He gave the new side of
Bangladesh’s film industry and he had to take
more. Tareque Masud took the film industry at
the world class level. But at a terrible road
accident they died. Like every film Tareque
masud and Mishuk Munir died together. They
made many Films’s together like-kagojer
phool(The paper of flower),Noroshundor(The
Barber) etc.Tareque Masud most film in early
age of his career was the documentary Muktir
Gaan (The Song of Freedom,1995). They died
but their shadow will be always in these earth.

3. Tareque Masud was born on 6 December 1956 in Nurpur
village, Bhanga Upazila, Faridpur District, Bangladesh.
He had started his education in an Islamic madrasah,
but the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War
against Pakistan forces in 1971 put an end to his studies
at the Islamic seminary. After the war, Masud pursued
general education. he had completed his HSC from
Dhaka College also completed his his hons' and
Masters degree in History from Dhaka University.
About

4. Family
• His wife, Catherine Masud, is a Chicago-born film
editor.Tareque Masud and Catherine had the sort of
relationship of which most couples can only dream. For the
last two decades, they lived together, raised their child
together, worked together, wrote scripts together, made films
together, and even won the Cannes together. They have a son,
Nishad Bingham Putra Masud.

5. Career
• One of Masud's earliest works was the documentary Adam
Surat (Inner Strength) on the Bangladeshi painter SM Sultan
of Narail District which he completed in 1989.
• His most famous film in early age of his career was the
documentary Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom, 1995)
• His first full-length feature film, Matir Moina (English release
title "The Clay Bird") which debuted at the Cannes Film
Festival
• His latest film, Ontorjatra, is a tale of two generations of
Bangladeshi diaspora in London. The film describes the short
visit home of a divorced mother and her son

6. Flimography
* Matir Moina (The Clay Bird)(35mm, 98 mins), 2002
Dir: Tareque Masud; Producer: Catherine Masud; Production:
Audiovision/MK2
A feature film based on the director's childhood experience
in a madrasa in rural East Pakistan during the turbulent 60's.

7. Flimography
Ontarjatra (The Homeland), 2006
A film about a divorced lady who is returning to her
homeland with her son to attend her former
husband's funeral.
Adam Surat (The Inner Strength)(16mm, 54
mins), 1989
Dir: Tareque Masud
Documentary on the life and art of the Bangladeshi
painter S.M. Sultan.

8. Death
• Masud died in a road accident near Ghior Upazila on 13 August 2011
while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway
after visiting a shooting location. His microbus collided head-on with an
oncoming passenger bus. In the accident, his wife Catherine Masud was
also seriously injured. He along with the other passengers were traveling
to choose shooting locations for his new film. The name of his new
movie is "Kagojer Ful" (The Paper Flower) filming of which was supposed
to begin after shooting locations were elected.

9. Ending
Tareque Masud is one best film maker in our
country. He makes many for us. Like Muktir
Gaan(1995) Sonar Bari(1985) Runway, Matir
Moina, and he last is kagojer phool and
Noroshundor.
We people are lost a great talent in his early age.