On November 21, 30 years down the line, Emon set his foot in India for the first time with a visa, reliving the childhood thrill, as his debut feature film "Jalaler Golpo" (Jalal's Story), portraying the story of a rootless boy who struggles to become a man with dignity in society, was screened in the South Asia Focus section of the International Film Festival of India in Panaji.
"Back in those days it was kind of an adventure for the kids to travel to India and take a shower over there and comeback to Bangladesh. It took me 30 years to get a formal occasion to visit here in IFFI. I am truly thrilled by this fact," the director told PTI.
Emon shot much of his film outdoors and the two persons who played the lead character of Jalal in the film are first-time actors Arafat Rahman and Mohammed Emon.
The film does have a star-studded cast in Mosharraf Karim, Moushumi Haimd, Taquir Ahmed and Mitali Das. The director said working with more than 300 extras who are just general people from a village was a "great learning experience".
"I learnt from their experience. It was a different directing experience," Emon said, adding he can understand the full import of the experience only after analysing after several others movies "because now I have no comparison about it".
"The police had handed over the boy to the public who killed him on the spot. I had watched the video several times after it spread like a wildfire on the Internet. The story was highlighted in the newspapers for a while before it melted away from the media glare, dying a silent death just as the boy did when no one came to claim his body.
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