Bangladesh helmer Masud dies at 54

Masud with wife Catherine at Marrakesh Worldwide Film Festival in 2002.LONDON -- Top rated Bangladeshi director Tareque Masud died August 13, carrying out a road accident near Dhaka. He was 54. His producer, co-author, editor and wife, U.S.-born Catherine Masud, was seriously hurt within the accident. Determination number of shorts, Masud first showed in 1995 using the feature documentary "Muktir Gaan" (Song of Freedom) about several itinerant music artists throughout Bangladesh's independence war of 1971. It was then a companion piece "Muktir Kotha" (Story of Freedom) in 1996. Masud's worldwide breakthrough arrived 2002 together with his fiction feature debut "Matir Moina" (The Clay Bird). Phone occasions prior to Bangladesh's independence in 1971, the film won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes' Director's Week "because of its authentic, moving and delicate portrayal of the country battling because of its democratic privileges." Masud and Catherine co-directed 2005's "Ontarjatra" (Homeland), in regards to a Bangladeshi mother and boy coming back towards the country after fifteen years abroad, attempting to retrace their roots.During the time of his dying, Masud was scouting locations for his next project "Kagojer Phul" (The Paper Flower). His boy Nishad survives him. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com