Preserving our heritage

Kanak Chanpa Chakma

The video was we well received by music lovers and critics alike for it refreshing approach and innovative presentation.

Arjo Cholochitro did not have look back after that. Today Arjo has over 600 music videos to its credit and has traversed almost all the genres of music with a fresh eye and feel.

Around same time Arjo found that video documentary could be an excellent medium of repression. Recognition for Arjo's attempt in video documentaries and plays came almost immediately.

The production house now boasts of winning awards in almost all the departments of creativity -- form best play, best photography to best director.

Making documentary is Arjo's passion. Arjo Cholochitro would like to document our thousand-year-old rich cultural reservoir to the international audience. Contemporary art scene here is Bangladesh is also vibrating with electrifying art activities.

Finally, their aim is to portray a new Bangladesh, full of possibilities and hopes.

Some samples of the documentaries:

The Greatest Master Zainul Abedin.

Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin is known as the father of modern Fine Arts in Bangladesh. This documentary is dedicated to celebrate his illustrious life, his paintings and other varied works. He founded the Fine Arts Institute in 1948 in Dhaka. This is the first institute in the country. To preserve the heritage he established the Folk Art Museum at the Sonargaon village, the old capital of Bangla.

Zainul was an intense man; whatever happened around him, touched him deeply and urged him to think beyond. His series of sketches on the Famine of 1943 was a passionate protest against the undulations of human life. The sketches were strong and potent and spoke aloud what a thousand words could not.

His mother sold her only gold necklace to send him to Calcutta (India) Arts School. He is the first artist of India and Pakistan to successfully assimilate abstract presentation into local tradition. He was honoured with the title of "Shilpacharya" (Guru of Art & Culture).

Hopes of indigenous on Kanak's Canvas:Kanak Chanpa Chakma is a renowned name is the painting arena of Bangladesh. Her very name suggests that she belongs to one of the 19 tribal groups of the indigenous people living in Bangladesh. She is a Chakma.

In her own words, Kanaka paints human figures in the backdrop of nature. But the opulence of nature, which has been her inspiration, is gradual waning before her eyes. Her paintings very vividly bears the reminiscences of hills, lakes, rivers and the deep green forests. She feels, with the advent of modern civilization, the greenery is no more there, rivers have lost its force, human innocence is lost forever in the urbanisation and man has become utterly helpless -- almost reduced into vegetative state.

But Kanak is still optimistic and therefore full of hope. This film focuses on how she tries to paint the tremendous impact of Mother Nature on the tribal people -- a process that would enliven the human decadence.