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Shyam Benegal’s Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Biopic in Post, Set for Cannes Market Debut

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Naman Ramachandran “Mujib: The Making of a Nation,” the biopic of late Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is currently in post-production and a teaser will be unveiled at the Cannes Market in May.

Popularly known as Bangabandhu (friend of Bengal), Rahman was one of the founders of the Awami League party and led the movement for political autonomy for East Pakistan and the subsequent formation of independent Bangladesh in 1971.

He served as the first president and then the first prime minister of Bangladesh until he was assassinated in an army coup in 1975.

His daughter Sheikh Hasina is the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh.The film is directed by veteran Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal (“The Making of the Mahatma,” “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero”).

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