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Last Touch . . .

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A shocked Catherine Masud, Tareque’s widow touches her husband coffin for the last time and her mother Alfreda Shaper holding him at funeral in Nurpur village of Bhanga upazila in Faridpur on 17 August 2011

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 According to the news media report Tareque Masud, the internationally acclaimed filmmaker, was buried around 2:40pm in the family yard of his village home at Nurpur under Bhanga upazila in Faridpur.

 Four others including ATN News CEO Mishuk Munier also died in the accident that happened on their way to meet the Manikganj deputy commissioner for permission to shoot for his “epic” film Kagojer Phool.

Born in 1956, Tareque Masud directed a number of acclaimed films including Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom) in 1995 and Matir Moina in 2002 which won a FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival of the year.

Some of his other masterpieces include Sonar Beri (The Chains of Gold), Adam Surat (The Inner Strength), Ontorjatra (The Homeland), Noroshundor (The Barber) and Runway.© Monirul Alam

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Last Respect | Tareque Masud & Mushuk Munier

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Cultural personalities, eminent citizens and thousands of people paid  their last respect to eminent filmmaker Tareque Masud and Chief Executive Officer of ATN News Ashfaque Munier, popularly known as Mishuk Munier the Central Shaheed Minar  premises in the city yesterday on 13 August.

 According to the news paper and tv channel, five of them were killed as their microbus collided with a Chuadanga-bound passenger bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway at Ghior sub district in Manikganj district on August 13,2011

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Eminent film producer and Tareque’s wife Catherine Masud, Painter couple Dhali Al Mamun and Dilara Zaman also were injured while the team were on a recce visit for `Kagojer Phool’ a feature film to be made. 

After their funeral the bodies have been kept at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). According to the family members of Masud, the schedule of his burial will be fixed after his mother-in-law arrives in Dhaka from the USA on Monday. Munier will be buried at the Banani Graveyard on Tuesday.

Dhaka 14 August 2011. © Monirul Alam