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Article by Sukhdev Sandu
Published in the Telegraph, 25 Jun 2009
The Last Thakur is a promising calling card from director Sadik Ahmed.
The Last Thakur, directed by Sadik Ahmed who co-wrote the script with Heather Taylor, is the first fruit of an intriguing collaboration between UK film distributor Artificial Eye and the National Film and Television School that gives current students and recent graduates the chance to make full-length features.
Set in the aftermath of an election in rural Bangladesh, it follows the arrival of a mysterious and armed young man (Tanveer Hassan) in a village quietly seething owing to a power struggle between a politician entitled Chairman (Ahmed Rubel) and an eccentric Hindu landlord (Tariq Anam).
The Last Thakur recalls British director’s Asif Kapadia’s excellent debut The Warrior (2001) in the way that it marries the Western genre to Eastern subject matter and in the primacy it gives to atmosphere over dialogue. Its digital photography could be improved and its pacing needs to be more dynamic, but this is a promising calling card. |
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