F I L E I N F O MoVie NaMe-------[ Muktir Gaan (Song of Freedom) DirecTor---------[ Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud ReLEASE DaTe-----[ 1995 (Bangladesh) GeNRe------------[ Documentary InfO LiNk--------[ IMDB.com Rippar-----------[ BengalTiger @ BTz ViDeo------------[ MPEG-4 Visua|XviD|1 186 Kbps AuDio------------[ MPEG Audio|MP3|129 Kbps RUNTiME----------[ 01:13:40 RESOLUTiON-------[ 720X384 SiZE-------------[ 700 MB LANGUAGE---------[ Bangla/English SUBS-------------[ None SouRce-----------[ PAL DvD @ BTz OveRall BiT RaTe-[ 1 328 Kbps

Synopsis:
Muktir Gaan is a documentary film which explores the impact of cultural identity on the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, where music and song provided a source of inspiration to the freedom fighters and a spiritual bond for the whole emerging nation. A group of Bengali cultural activists travel through refugee camps and battle zones performing rousing songs which capture the essence of the Bengali nation. Directors Catherine and Tareque Masud used original footage by American film-maker Lear Levin, as well as other archival footage collected from the UK and India.

Twenty-five years in the making, this film began with the ambition of Lear Levin, an American filmmaker, to make an epic documentary in the tradition of Robert Flaherty on the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. Levin and his crew came across a troupe of travelling musicians, members of a larger cultural movement known as the Bangladesh Mukti Sangrami Shilpi Sangstha, who were traversing the zones of war singing songs of struggle to inspire the guerrilla cadres and the millions of refugees. Levin, who did not know any Bengali, followed this troupe and captured the spirit of the Bengali people through 20 hours of beautifully photographed footage. However, he became so caught up in filming that he returned to the US only just as the war was coming to an end. he was unable to get funds to complete the project and for 20 years, the footage lay in storage in his basement in New York.


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