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Mass e Bhat synopsis (2009) A Portrait of a Developing Nation Through the Eyes of its Children One of the world’s poorest
countries, Bangladesh is also one of the most rapidly developing. As 7.9 million
children across the country work every day to support themselves and their
families, mass migration from the rural communities swells the numbers in the
slums and factories. As it continues to go through
it’s own industrial revolution, Bangladesh is, in many ways a perfect example
of what we refer to as “A developing nation”. Mass
e Bhat explores this shifting society through the eyes of it’s children.
In the young people of the slums, villages, factories and streets, we see a
generation forced to grow up at an incredibly early age, to whom work and
responsibility are part of everyday life. In addition, we
talk to the adults who protect, employ, raise or exploit these children,
and, in doing so, paint a vivid portrait of a nation in transition, the cost of
development and the true meaning of childhood. We are also invited into the
world of Rassel, a small-time factory owner who feels he is providing a
service to the community by buying children from their parents to make saris in
his workshop, Nasreen, a mother facing a dilemma as she finds herself
unable to make ends meet for her family and Tariq and Muni, two committed
young social workers who comb the alleyways of Korrail for street children to
put into the local school. Sarwaar, a former rickshaw driver who lost an
arm in an accident has taken the extreme step of moving his young family to a
traditional jungle community without electricity or running water in order to
spare his children the danger of a life in the slums. Never judgmental or
working to a specific agenda, Mass e Bhat allows each of these characters speak
openly and frankly in their own words and interweaves these insights with music
and fly-on-the-wall observation into an impressionistic, cinematic and personal
documentary. Background information We have had the idea of doing a documentary in Bangladesh for many years. We came up with idea while we were in pre production on AmaZulu. We put together treatment's but the opportunity to go there never arose until Hannan did a personal visit in March 2008 to see his family and whilst he was there put together a small Bangladeshi film crew and decided to go out to the slums, factories and villages to talk to young people about how life is in Bangladesh at the present time. That initial visit kicked off the creation of Mass E Bhat. We edited some scenes together and trailer which we then showed to some NGO's to raise awareness on the issue of child labor. Consortium for Street Children who saw the value in a longer documentary and worked with us in getting us to go back and film the rest of the documentary. In September/October 2008 both Hannan and Richard went to Bangladesh for a month to shoot a majority of the documentary and while we were there we reunited with the Bangladeshi film crew and went on a whirlwind visit round Bangladesh to speak with more young people in a variety of different circumstances from the slums to the villages to the factories to the jungle to one of the most populated but exciting cities in the world Dhaka. Final part of filming took place between December 2008 to January 2009. Some of the footage we shot with young people was used in a short campaign documentary we made to raise awareness on street children. That video which was made for Consortium For Street Children is available to view on our Online Videos page. Music Music is a big part of this documentary, we are using orginal music by our long term colloborater Kidkanevil aswell as Narrow P and Shama Rahman. Here is a bit of info on Narrow P a talented producer based in Leeds. Narow P is a music producer and musician currently living in Leeds studying music production. As well as writing and producing for and with a wide range of different artists he also runs a radio show called How We Do which exclusively plays music from or connected to Yorkshire as well as catching interviews with some of the music industries greatest artists. www.myspace.com/narowpmusic www.howwedo.co.uk
'Mass e Bhat' Preview
'Mass e Bhat' Trailer
The music in this trailer is by KidKanevil and is taken from the 'Problems & Solutions' album 'Mass e Bhat' Teaser
This is the first in a series of trailers and promo's we will be releasing for the documentary. This is a musical trailer which is just a teaser . There is no dialogue here, just a sublime piece of music by KidKanevil called 'Ketto Revisited' featuring Bonobo which is taken from his last album 'Back Off Im A Scientist'. Let us know what you think of the trailer. To see stills from the documentary click here
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