MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA

Armed with curiosity and a camera, Nuruzzaman Khan Bappy, a young filmmaker is making a difference in the art scene of Bangladesh. Peering through the eyepiece of his camera, Bappy tries to find new stories and styles in the everyday setting of life. "For me finding a story is a kind of revelation and once it clicks, I start shooting," he says.  

He believes that a movie alone cannot able to convey meaning to the viewer. He explains that each movie has to relate to its audience, present an investigative text, and offer an authoritative presenting agency. He believes that a community of filmmakers is a must in order to achieve that. "People related to the industry need to have a community based approach. A community can help to form our cinematic identity globally." 

The life that Bappy captures in one of his documentary films, "Ohayo, Nayan!", reflects the very nature of familiarity that the audience feels with the lives led by Bengali speaking people living in different countries. In this documentary he follows the protagonist Nayan in Japan as he tries to cope with an unknown culture and society. 

Misery shown explicitly in a documentary cannot make the cinema memorable. And Bappy proves that his cinema does not depend on the misery of their subjects but rather his films tell their story in a compelling, heart-wrenching manner. 

Nayeem Mahbub, a filmmaker and producer of "Ohayo, Nayan!", is his inspiration in filmmaking. "He always pushes me to do things. I am glad I have such an amazing mentor in my life."  

Bappy studied Media Studies and Journalism at ULAB, where he was closely involved with filmmaking, "But ULAB is not the whole world. So to explore the filmmaking industry, I begin my quest for knowledge from FDC. In fact I worked as a production boy and light man to understand the spirit of filmmaking," he says. He did, however, make short films that enabled him to cultivate his lifelong affinity for movie making.