Mujib: The Making of a Nation (2023) on Netflix
As a student leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman meets Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and begins his political career during the British Raj. He joins the campaign to make Bengali a national language.
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Plot summary
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman comes home to Bangladesh on 10 January 1972, after his release from a Pakistani jail, and the leaders who welcome him present him with garlands. Before a crowd of millions, he speaks of rebuilding the newborn country. After his studies at the Baker Hostel in Calcutta, he enters Dhaka University. On February 21, 1952, the students of that university march out of its gate demanding Bengali as the national language, and the police open fire on the procession, causing heavy casualties. Sheikh Mujib, in prison at the time, goes on a hunger strike.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mujib: The Making of a Nation (2023)
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- Actors Arifin Shuvoo, Nusrat Imrose Tisha and Zayed Khan were paid only Tk 1 each, a symbolic fee, for appearing in Mujib: The Making of a Nation.
- Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's prime minister and Mujib's daughter, wanted Amitabh Bachchan for the lead role, but he was passed over in pre-production because he was considered too old for it.
- Shyam Benegal shot the film in Bengali even though he does not know the language and needed translators, after Sheikh Hasina had asked for English, Hindustani or Urdu.
- Arifin Shuvoo, whose TV drama was spotted at the Mumbai International Film Festival, was picked from 15 actors after five rounds of auditions, despite some on the production team judging him unsuitable.
- Mujib: The Making of a Nation was the first government-produced biopic about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and it is also noted as the last film of its director, Benegal.
- Kaiser Kamal, legal affairs secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, sent a legal notice accusing the film's makers, including the director, of defaming former president Ziaur Rahman and his wife in two scenes, and sought to stop screenings and win an apology.
- Jyotika Jyoti and Jannatul Sumaiya Himi were cast as Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib and Sheikh Hasina but were later dropped, while Rawnak Hasan was cut as Sheikh Kamal on his contract-signing day and replaced by Somnath Chatterjee.
- Music director Moitra wanted Bangladeshi folk influences in the score and watched the film about fifty times for inspiration while producing the background music.
