The Last Kiss

The Last Kiss (1931)

First ever Bangladeshi feature film. The film about a conflict between two family members.

Date of release
1931-12-31
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Ambuj Prasanna Gupta

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Interesting facts

The Last Kiss is a 1931 British Indian silent film, directed by Ambuj Gupta. The film was produced by the Nawab family of Dhaka and was the first film to be full-length feature film from eastern Bengal. Shot in Dhaka, post-production work was done in Calcutta. The Last Kiss was released by the Mukul Theater. The film is considered lost.

Production

In 1928, Ambuj Gupta, a sports coach at the Jagannath College, directed the silent film Sukumari. In October 1929, shortly after finishing that project, he started to work on The Last Kiss. It featured cinematography by Khwaja Azad and Khwaja Ajmal. The 14-year-old lead actress, Lolita, was escorted from the Badamtoli brothel in Dhaka, and the supporting actress Charubala Devi was escorted from the Kumartuli brothel.

Title cards were displayed in three languages: Bengali, English, and Urdu. Gupta composed the title cards in the first two languages, and the Urdu titles were produced by Dr. W. H. Andalib Shadani. The Last Kiss is retrospectively considered to be the first Bangladeshi film to be considered full-length. It was produced by some young members of the Dhaka Nawab family.

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