Documentary film ‘Titas Parer Manushti’ screened in Toronto

Documentary film ‘Titas Parer Manushti’ was screened in Toronto, Canada, local time on Friday (February 23) evening hosted by the Toronto Film Forum at the Multicultural Film Screening Center at 3000 Danforth Avenue in Toronto.

Documentary film ‘Titas Parer Manushti : Shaheed Dhirendranath Dutta’ directed by renowned filmmaker Tanveer Mokammel of Bangladesh is screened. This documentary film of 1 hour 15 minutes presents the life and work of Shaheed Dhirendranath.

It is to be noted that Shaheed Dhirendranath Dutta spoke for the first time on the question of the national language of Pakistan in the first session of the Pakistan National Assembly in Karachi on 24 February 1948. At that time, about 57 percent of the population of Pakistan spoke Bengali. As a result, this philanthropic man born in the soil of Bengal, who fought for his life against injustice and injustice, raised the demand of Bengali language as one of the state languages of Pakistan.