LALON | Part 3br (a feature film on Fakir Lalon Shah)br br length: 120 minutesbr format: 35mm.br photography: Anwar Hossainbr editing: Mahadeb Shibr art direction: Uttam Guhabr sound: Abdus Satterbr music: Syed Shabab Ali Arzoobr presented by : Anjan Chowdhury Pintubr cast: Raisul Islam Asad, Shomi Kaiser, Azad Abul Kalam, Tamanna Yasmin Tithi, Chittralekha Guha, Vaswar Banerjee, Ramendu Majumder, Khurshiduzzaman Utpal, Wahida Mallik Joly, Fakir Anwar Hossain Montu Shah, Kartik Das Baul, Pagla Bablu, Naresh Bhuiyan, Saidur Rahman Bayati, Fakir Balai Shah, Krishna Ghosh, Orko, Ornisha Guha Nairit and othersbr production year: 2004br script & direction : Tanvir Mokammelbr br Synopsis of the filmbr br Lalon Fakir (? – 1890), a doyen among the Baul-Fakirs of Bengal, composed few hundred songs of profound depth and an excellent sense of music. Buddhist Tantricism, Hindu Vaisnavism and Islamic Sufism all have their shares of influence on Lalon. Throughout the decades Lalon’s songs, depicting asceticism and transience of life, have expressed the pathos and pangs of the caste-ridden subaltern rural populace of Bengal. Lalon's secular ideas and enchanting lyrics left deep influence on the subsequent generations of the different trends of Baul-Fakirs of Bangladesh and India. Though Lalon died only a hundred years ago yet not much details of his life is clearly known and some aspects are still shrouded in mystery. By portraying the milieu of Lalon who was a kind of a Guru during his life-time, the film aims to catch the social ethos of his period. Some historical personalities, who were prominent in the cultural history of Bengal of that time and came in touch with Lalon, like Jyotirindranath Tagore, Kangal Harinath and Mir Mosharraf Hossain, also figure in the film. The film tries to portray Lalon's life, persona and ideas mainly through the lyrics of his songs.br br * Shown in the Fukuoka (Japan), London film festivals and in the competitive section of Goa (India) and Dhaka international film festivals.