The Daily Sun
Aynabaji, a feature film directed by prominent TVC director Amitabh Reza, was screened at Markoda Grey Three Hall of Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.
Amitabh Reza, Ziauddin Bablu and Gausul Alam Shaon, producers of the film, also joined the festival with their film.
There is another town inside this town. We do not hear of it anymore. It is not seen even in cinemas and dramas. Ayanabaji is the story of that town.
The milkman still comes in the morning, hawker comes to sell products, kids go to drama classes together, and delinquents mess around, having tea and puri in local restaurants of the area.
Ayna is a resident of that town. Easy and simple, he lives alone there and runs a theater group with small children. In midst of that, suddenly an inherent love comes up. He comes in the new town to earn his livelihood. He has to become someone else to work.
For all those people Ayna works and earn his livelihood and then go back to his little town. Doing this daily he gets trapped into the lost city. He tries a lot to get out of it and be that old Ayna again, but fails.
He cannot change the new colorful identity. Ayna cannot get back to his love which he left behind or the drama school. By loving drama he wants to make the town a stage but it turns into the gallows.
The best actor stands at the end of the defeat by the laugh of the executioner. Like this era’s Spartacus Ayna is standing on the stage of his last drama and waiting for the cannibals.
The film produced by Half Stop Down Limited has starred Chanchal Chowdhury, Lutfur Rahman George, Hira Chowdhury, Shawkat Osman and Gousul Alam Shaon, among others.