Haribol

Film 'Haribol' to be submitted to censor board

The film ‘Haribol’ portrays the plight of marginal minorities of Bangladesh, through the story of a family from the minority community getting persecuted by the village Panchayat and evicted from their homeland, and eventually forced to feel the country. The head of the family Nitai living a life of ‘bairagya’ (nonchalance or abstinence from material ambitions) fails to resist the eviction of his family. Haribol elucidates on the helplessness of minorities and the way they succumb to the persecution they are facing. The narrative unfolds through the point of view of a young filmmaker. He is the story-teller who embarks on making a biopic film based on a war heroine. He discovers the family of Nitai while researching on the war heroine named Suparna Basu at Baleswar region. Although he faces difficulty in finishing the script for not being able to find current location of his subject of interest, Suparna, he finds a parallel narrative in the conditions being faced by Nitai’s family

Prologue: Paru A Trilogy is produced. The first part is ‘Haribol’, second part ‘Suparna Basu’ and the final part ‘Ra’. The total story will emerge from this trilogy. The canvas of this trilogy is Bangladesh. Each & every part is Bangladesh and its context. The stories are our familiar, known tales. There will be a direct connection between Bangladesh & the three stories of the trilogy. Three stories, three films, one trilogy. Synopsis of Haribal: After the construction of ‘Farakka’ dam, water-flow in the branches and sub-branches of the River Padma starts decreasing. The immediate victims are the Baleshwar inhabitants. Baleshwar is a branch of the River Padma. The Baleshwar part in the Nazirpur Upazila in the Northern Pirojpur District of Bangladesh is in the process of death. Now it is called Dead Baleshwar. ‘Haribol’ is a tale from that Dead Baleshwar. Paru & Nitai Nitai and Paru is a minority, marginalized family here. Nitai, the head of the family, i