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Rudra Kawser

Rudra Kawser

Directing

Biography

Rudra Kawser born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has completed his Post Graduation Diploma (PGD) in Film making from Bangladesh Cinema & Television Institute (BCTI). One of his films 'Janapada' has been selected to several international film festivals and won the BEST FILM AWARD at the Dhaka International Youth Film Festival 2020. He loves history, mythology & mathematics from his childhood. He is also an EC member and actively connected with a voluntary social organization working on Climate Change & Environmental situation in Bangladesh.

Known For

Chakrabyuha
10.0

The cinema depicts the daily sexual harassment of a woman by speech, physical and gaze and the resulting emotional strain on her personal and professional life. In a patriarchal society, women themselves along with men participate in the attitude towards women, thus depicting the fact that even though she is a woman, she is carrying the seeds of patriarchy. As the psychological introspection of a model, actress, self-reliant, independent woman in her personal life will come up in this movie, so will her own experience about the subject matter of this cinema.

Chakrabyuha

2021
Porobashee
10.0

Mrinal is suffering from a serious illness. Her husband Rudra is a writer. Mrinal's cousin Kamal takes care of Mrinal. Rudra’s friend doctor visits Mrinal for regular checkups. Mrinal often looks at her thin, pale white face in the mirror. In Mrinal's consciousness, thoughts of beauty, thoughts of God, thoughts of death and finally the urge to relieve her pain parallel to nature comes randomly. Rudra loves Mrinal. Mrinal and Rudra do not have marital discord but conflicts as Rudra comes closure with Kamal. But his love for Mrinal is also deep. The doctor remains disinterested after seeing Rudra and Kamal's intimate moment. And Kamal falls in love with Rudra, even physically, but discovers herself through Mrinal's death and leaves home. Rudra lies alone. The main character of the film is basically a sense between life and death. This sense includes dreams, beauty, envy, love, lust and the desire to dissolve into the ethereal form of nature.

Porobashee

2023
Janapada
10.0

Rudra has come back one morning, has return to his friend Saruar's home. He had disappeared from home leaving no cue, a year ago. Saruar first came to know about Rudra's disappearance in Rudra's mother's call. Then he had gone to Rudra's home and saw how his agitated parents and elder brother were tracing out reasons of his desertion. Rudra do not answer any of these questions of Saruar now. He become immutable and eloquent. He only replies that he is tired and cinema experience Rudra's exhaustion from this world's journey in a non-narrative way. Rudra's consciousness become aware of a bigger crisis. Rudra just express interest to go to sleep for a while.

Janapada

2019
My Mother Can Sing But She Doesn't
N/A

Filmmaker and her mother, a village housewife: their experiences of life, abusive marriages, violence, and home. Although it’s a personal story, it could be the story of countless women in a patriarchal society of Bangladesh.

My Mother Can Sing But She Doesn't

Perspective
N/A

Perception of the environment and life of a bedridden sick adult.

Perspective

2018
The mad moon on the path of horizon
N/A

Feelings of parental rights over the child, skepticism towards socially accepted relationships and the idea of individual freedom in the social-state sphere.

The mad moon on the path of horizon

2019
The Tale of Droupadi
N/A

Bani standing on the door with volatility. She founds footsteps with blood on the floor which leads her inside. Scarcely she knocks back on the wall and discovers hand marks on the wall. Then she begins to touch the marks hesitantly. Looking ahead she found a mirror and become apprehensive about it. Coming in front of the mirror she looks herself absurd. She puts on and wears saree, wig, shackle, ornaments from the dressing table, then begins to rotate and turns pale. As she rotates, her saree and ornaments fall down one by one. Now she moves towards the door, be taken aback, sees the room for once and goes away.

The Tale of Droupadi

2019
Choukath (চৌকাঠ)
N/A

Experience of a woman's existential crisis through the story of a night.

Choukath (চৌকাঠ)

2022
Color, Nature & Poetry
N/A

'Nature, Color & Poetry' is a sensory immersion into the shifting rhythms of the Bengal landscape, where the interplay of light and color serves as the primary language of human existence. The documentary moves beyond mere observation, evolving into a poetic journey of transformation that traces the dawn-to-dusk cycle of an agricultural community deeply rooted in its environment. The film begins with the gentle awakening of the earth—the silver mist of morning and the golden emergence of the first ray. As the sun ascends, the visual palette transforms from the soft pastels of dew-laden pastures to the shimmering mercury of the river at noon. As a formal experiment in capturing time within space, the documentary utilizes layering the asynchronous sounds of daily activities over static, painting-like compositions. This technique invites the audience to experience lives and moments audibly while the visual remains suspended, creating a lyrical synthesis of man and nature.

Color, Nature & Poetry

2019
Abalipi
N/A

Abalipi is an intimate exploration of the fracture between the self and society. The film centers on Srabon, a soul weary of the world’s "poison," who attempts to bridge her internal isolation by writing a letter to herself. Through a haunting monologue, she confronts the words she has never dared to speak and the fear that has kept her silenced. As she watches pigeons soar above—messengers of a forgotten past—Srabon grapples with an existential exhaustion that threatens to consume her. Abalipi is a poetic, visual meditation on the edge of endurance, where the act of writing becomes a final attempt to find a reflection that isn't broken.

Abalipi