Project Detail

The Last Thakur

n/a

Synopsis

A modern-day Western set in a Bengali village; a story of revenge and the search for personal identity.

The village Chairman has his election victory tainted by the arrival of a stranger with a gun. When the stranger sides with the Chairman’s arch nemesis: Thakur, bullets fly in the sleepy backwater village. It soon becomes apparent that the stranger has his own motives for revenge.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Features
Running time: 81 mins
Format: HDCam
Director: Sadik Ahmed 1st Feature
Producer: Philip Knatchbull, Nik Powell, Daniel Chamier
Co-Producer: Philip Knatchbull, Nik Powell, Daniel Chamier
Editor: Hugh Williams
Screenwriter: Sadik Ahmed, Heather Taylor
Director of Photography: Sadik Ahmed
Production Designer: Byron Broadbent
Sound: Ayush Ahuja, Kieron Teather
Composer: Kishon Khan, Birgir Clausen
Principal cast: Tariq Anam, Ahmed Rubel, Tanveer Hassan, Jayanto Chattopadyahay, Anisur Rahman Milon

Genre

Action Asian Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Aimimage, Unit 5

63 Pratt Street
London NW1 0BY
UK

T +44 (0)20 7916 3734

atif@aimimage.com

Sales Company

Artificial Eye Film Co

2nd Floor
20-22 Stukeley Street
London WC2B 5LR
UK

caroline@artificial-eye.com

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

Suggest amendments

Tanju Miah opens in a misty landscape in rural Bangladesh, where a young boy waits for his mother. "I'm about eight or nine", he says in a voice-over. "When I grow up I want to become a rich man, by singing". He waits and works, and sometimes sings. Director Sadik Ahmed uses a series of graceful scenes to build a psychologically complex portrait of a child who might otherwise disappear into statistics. His bosses call him Blacky. "But in my village", he says, "my real name is Tanju".

Asian

Fly Little Bird

Director: Johannes Boesiger

Year: 2026

Judith, an American singer-songwriter struggling with addiction, flees her Jewish relatives' West Bank settlement and finds refuge in Ramallah with Leena, a British-Indian journalist, and Rafiq, a Palestinian photographer. Judith falls in love with Rafiq and reconnects with music through local DJ Amira, but when her grandfather threatens military intervention, Leena escorts Judith to London. Rafiq doesn't follow. Although Judith performs again, her freedom and artistic expression prove fragile.

Drama

A man in a dark room illuminated by red light that is being held on the ground by another person

Tales of the Underworld

Director: Darren S. Cook