Festival of Bangladesh in Mumbai

SEP 25: Bangladesh, a country of almost a hundred and fifty million people, shares a common cultural heritage with India. However, awareness of the richness of its cultural tradition and the talent of its creative people is poor even in cosmopolitan Indian cities like Delhi and Mumbai.

Few Bangladeshi singers have had the opportunity of a Runa Laila who took India by storm in the late eighties.

Bibi Russell - Bangladeshi model turned fashion designer

Bangladeshi artists have taken their art to Europe and America, but few are known to art-lovers in Mumbai. A Bibi Russell may have got rave reviews at Fashion Weeks in London and Paris, but her creations have never been seen on the ramps of Mumbai.

TARA, the flagship Bengali television channel of Broadcast Worldwide Limited, has been attempting to bridge this gap in awareness of our eastern neighbor by organizing television events in Kolkata featuring singers and designers from Dhaka. It has now decided to undertake the much more ambitious effort of staging a full-fledged Festival of Bangladesh in the business and entertainment capital of India, Mumbai.

The Festival will comprise a Fashion Show featuring the international fashion icon Bibi Russell and three important designers from Bangladesh followed by songs in Hindi and Bengali from the hugely popular Shakila Zafar and rounded off with some amazing food!

Shakila Zafar

There will also be a week-long exhibition of the work of sixteen Bangladeshi artists and performances of Rabindrasangeet.

The inaugural function will be held on September 26, 2004 at Hilton Towers in Mumbai.

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