Swopnodanay (, On the Wings of Dreams) is a 2007 Bengali drama film directed by Golam Rabbany Biplob. It was Bangladesh's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not nominated.

Plot

The story of the movie revolves around a village in Naogaon district. The entire movie's dialogues are in the regional language of Naogaon. The story begins with a hawker in a village market. People call him Fazlu Kabiraj. In fact, he sells ointment in the market. His companion is his ten-year-old son Ratan. One day after the haat, Fazlu goes to a second-hand shop to buy pants for Ratan. After buying the pants he finds some foreign notes in his pocket. What will be the value of this note, he thinks, his family dreams. When he talks to his childhood friend Siraj Member about this, he get greedy. Fazlu Kabiraj's life changed in his dream of owning money, relations with close people deteriorated.

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Cast

Mahmuduzzaman Babu as Fazlu

Rokeya Prachy as Matka

Fazlur Rahman Babu as Siraj

Momena Choudhury

Shamima Islam Tusti as Rehana

Shoma as Asma

Golam Rasul Babu

Shah Alam Kiran

Gulshan Ara

Fargana Milton

Ratan

Shoma

Shamoly

Awards

Best Director

Asian New Talent Competition

10th Shanghai International Film Festival, 2007

Silver Peacock

38th International Film Festival of India-GOA, 2007

Meril Prothom Alo Awards

Best Film

See also

List of Bangladeshi films of 2007

Cinema of Bangladesh

List of submissions to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

2007 films

Bengali-language Bangladeshi films

Bangladeshi drama films

Films scored by Bappa Mazumdar

2000s Bengali-language films

2007 drama films

Best Film Bachsas Award winners

Impress Telefilm films

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