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Ziaul Hoque Raju

Ziaul Hoque Raju

Directing

Biography

Artist & Filmmaker Raju loves painting from his childhood. He has completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Major in Painting) in 2015 from University of Development Alternative in Dhaka, and then Post Graduation Diploma (PGD) in Filmmaking (Direction) from Bangladesh Cinema & Television Institute (BCTI). Raju has made several short films: A Paper Kite (2018), Batikbabu (2019), Endless Way (2022), Fossil (2023) etc.

Known For

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
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
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
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7.0

Walking on the road to death, seeing some distractions.

Endless Way