Oggatonama

Oggatonama
Film poster
Directed byTauquir Ahmed
Written byTauquir Ahmed
Produced byFaridur Reza Sagar
Starring
CinematographyEnamul Haque Sohel
Music byPinto Ghosh
Distributed byImpress Telefilm
Release dates
  • 21 May 2016 (2016-05-21) (Gulf of Naples Independent Film Festival)
  • 19 August 2016 (2016-08-19) (Bangladesh)
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Running time
100 minutes
CountryBangladesh
LanguageBengali

Oggatonama (Bengali: অজ্ঞাতনামা lit. 'The Unnamed') is a 2016 Bangladeshi drama film directed and written by Tauquir Ahmed. It was selected as the Bangladeshi entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[2][3] The film stars Fazlur Rahman Babu, Shahiduzzaman Selim, Mosharraf Karim, Nipun Akter, Shatabdi Wadud, and several others. Oggatonama was released on 19 August 2016 in Bangladesh by Impress Telefilm. It is about a Bangladeshi migrant who dies after illegally entering the United Arab Emirates with a fake passport. The Bangladesh police receive the wrong corpse.[4]

  1. ^ "Oggatonama to represent Bangladesh at Oscars". The Daily Star. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  2. ^ এবার অস্কারে যাচ্ছে ‘অজ্ঞাতনামা’. bdnews24 (in Bengali). 26 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Oggatonama to represent Bangladesh at Oscars". The Daily Star. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  4. ^ "'The Unnamed' ('Oggatonama'): Film Review | Kolkata 2016". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 May 2019.