Iftekhar Wafid

  Today is the 10 years anniversary of Gangs of Wasseypur. Gangs of Wasseypur is the movie I think I have watched 16th times or even more, I don’t know. It’s an emotion. It can resonate with any feelings: happy, sad, joy, anger…everything. Even in the time when I was feeling like not watching anything, that time also I end up getting playing Gangs of Wasseypur on my pc. It was not only the most influential cinema ever made in the Hindi film industry but also the most influential cinema made in the whole world in the last decade. In the word of Martin Scorcese, “It was inspiring”. Exactly Ten years ago what Anurag Kashyap made, I bet he also didn’t think that this movie would divide the Hindi cinema into two eras, the Post-GOW era and the Pre-GOW era. Unlike Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ or Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’ where we can see gangsters usually in fashionable suet-tie, here in Anurag’s world we can see the complete opposite, who can even imagine wearing ‘Gamcha’ would be a “Gangster” th

'Decay of Society' by Michael DeBonis আমাদের দেশের সমাজব্যবস্হা খুবই অদ্ভুত ধরনের। জানি এটি নতুন কোনো কথা না তারপরও বললাম। সবচেয়ে অবাক লাগে এটা ভেবে যে এখানে মানুষ নিজেদের বর্তমান পরিস্থিতিতেই খুশি থাকে বেশি। বিশেষকরে এদেশের মধ্যবিত্ত শ্রেণি। আমার তো মনে হয় এদেশের বেশিরভাগ মধ্যবিত্ত এটাই জানে না যে তারা মধ্যবিত্ত। এই শ্রেণি খুবই জটিল ভাবে সুপিরিয়রিটি কমপ্লেক্স আর ইনফেরিওরিটি কমপ্লেক্স এর মাঝামাঝি অবস্থান করছে। তারা সমাজের উচ্চবিত্ত শ্রেণিকে ভয়ানক ভাবে অনুকরণ করে ঠিকই, তবে ওদের মতো হওয়ার যে খিদে,আকাঙ্ক্ষা বা স্বপ্ন, এসব মধ্যবিত্ত শ্রেণিকে ভীত করে তোলে। আর নিজেদের চেয়ে নিচু অবস্থান এ যারা রয়েছে অর্থাৎ নিম্নবিত্ত শ্রেণির সাথে এরা অদ্ভুত ভাবে আচরন করে। তাদের জন্য পূর্নসমবেদনার তো কোন অভাব নেই( এদেশের বর্তমান বেশিরভাগ মধ্যবিত্তই কিন্তু এই নিম্নবিত্ত শ্রেণি থেকেই প্রমোশন পাওয়া, নিজেদের অতীতের কথা চিন্তা করেই হয়তো নিম্নবিত্তদের প্রতি সমবেদনা একটু বেশিই) আবার তাদের সামনে নিজেদের 'বড়লোক' দের কাছ থেকে অনুকরণ করা জীবন যাপন 'শো অফ' করতে বড়ই ভালোবাসে। নিজেদের কম্পফোর্ট জোনের

  It was my submission for the recent commonwealth essay competition. My subject was: It’s been 30 years since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, what does the world look like.  Here is my essay: Today is 3rd June 2052. It’s been almost 30 years since the Covid-19 pandemic ended. A lot of people around the world get vaccinated at the end of 2022. And then the pandemic comes under control. But before that, we had a great loss. Millions of people died around the world. Almost half of the world population got the covid-19 positive. Millions of people losses their job, their family, their home. In fact, today also the world economy suffers from this pandemic. Now it’s not mandatory for wearing a mask.  But those who were very small in that pandemic time, still wear a mask when they go out. I think it’s their childhood habit. People don’t have to do social distancing anymore. But people get confused when they see a crowd. They start to keep their distance from one another by own. The story o

  This is one of those topics where I can write for an hour. For me watching movies is more than just entertainment. The great thing about cinema is it allows you to live another person's life without leaving your room, despite having huge cultural and language differences. In my opinion, cinema is the highest part of any art. Yes, I know I am biased towards cinema. But I don't like to call those kinds of things with disgusting stories and lots of item songs, a cinema. These are not cinemas, this is just a two hours long video and their main motive is earning money. Cinema is more than that, it forces you to think. Whenever I have free time I invest that time in watching movies. I believe that a movie can teach a person lots of things. It has the ability to change anyone's life. Personally, it changed me a lot. It has a great impact on my thought process, on my opinion and how I see things in my daily life. I started watching movies when I was in class ten. Before that I al

This is a picture I took a year ago...It is a broken window of a Madrasha hostel. Back then, there was the winter season and ice-cold air was blowing heavily. It was a small attempt to escape from the incisive wind. They used Jainamaz there to protect themselves, which they usually use for prayer. The thing is, those Jainamaz were facing contradictory positions. 

  I hope in this age of social media everyone knows what stand-up comedy is. But for those who don't have any idea about “Stand-up Comedy”, it's basically an art form where a person stands/sits in front of you and tells jokes to you so that you can laugh and enjoy your time. If you are thinking that it’s an easy job, I am telling you, dude, it’s not an easy job. In fact, it is one of the hardest art form in my opinion cause everything is live and it’s happening in front of you, anything can go wrong. And it’s not easy to make people laugh. At this time, stand-up comedy is very popular around the world. Many countries have a huge market in this field such as the US, India, Canada, Australia and so on...For example, in India stand-up comedy started getting popular in 2009 which wasn’t long ago. Vir Das, who is one of the best stand-up comedian right now in the world, came back from the US and started a show called Weirdass Comedy where he made a platform for newcomers called “Ham