Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Biography

Farooki's body of work address such themes as middle class angst, urban youth romance, deception-hypocrisy and frailty of individual, frustration about own culture and
conservative Muslim concepts of guilt and redemption.

He is widely considered to be one of the most brilliant and influential movie maker of contemporary Bangladesh. He, along with his fellow filmmaker from chabial, has created a new genre of Bangladeshi films that are completely different from traditional theatrical melodrama. Stylistically his works have a documentary feel that sometimes takes a poetic look.

Farooki is a self made film-maker. In an interview, he jokingly mentioned the following :
I am a student of World University of Mistakes. My mistakes are my teacher.

As he never studied in film-making or never got the opportunity to assist any director, he has been learning by doing it himself. He is inspired by Abbas Kiarostami, Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Robert Bresson, Andrei Tarkovsky and some other filmmakers.

Filmography:
2012 - Television
2009 - Third Person Singular Number
2007 - Made In Bangladesh
2003 - Bachelor

Born	May 2, 1973
Awards	2012 - Television - awarded A C F Busan International Film Festival 2012 for post production fund. 2009 - Third Person Singular Number - Premiered in - Pusan International Film Festival (2009), Official selection - International Film Festival Rotterdam (2010), Official competition - Middle East International Film Festival (2009), Winner Best Director - Dhaka International Film Festival (2010), Official competition - Tiburon International (2010), Official competition - Festival Cinema Africano,Asia,America,Latina,Milano,Italy (2010) 2003 - Bachelor - New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest, Third Eye IFF Mumbai, Asiaticafilmmediale Rome
Gender	Male
Personal Information	Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (born 1973 Dhaka, Bangladesh) is a contemporary Bangladeshi Film director, screenwriter and producer. He has directed a number of video fiction for television, ground breaking TV commercials and three full length feature films. His films have been shown in international film festivals like Rotterdam, Busan, Abu Dhabi etc.. Variety’s Jay Weissberg wrote, “Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a key exemplar of Bangladeshi new wave cinema movement”. He is a young director in Bangladesh who has set a new trend in terms of presentation and direction after the media boom began in Bangladesh in the late 1990s. His third film Third Person Singular Number was premiered in Pusan International Film Festival (2009). It had its European premier in International Film Festival Rotterdam, It was also in the official competition 2009 Middle East International Film Festival (Abu Dhabi). His previous two films, which he considers to be an educational effort, were Bachelor (2003) and Made in Bangladesh (2007).