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Okay, here is one Bangla film that despite a lot of obvious twists will leave you pleasantly surprised because of a few twists (at last). Mukhosh begins with Prince (Rubel) playing the role of a dissolute, immoral killer named Prince whose favourite clothes include long overcoats, very warm jackets and silk shirts (perhaps there was snowfall in Cox’s Bazar when the film was shot).
   Anyway, he is killing left and right and has no scruples about which woman ends up in his room (somehow this part is not repulsive at all). However, he is shot and killed in the jungle by the local SP of police (Wasim) but to get to the top of a terror ring, the SP secretly buries Prince and gets a street vendor named Raja, who looks exactly like the terrorist, to take his part.
   Yes, we get Rubel once more but this time he is the good guy infiltrating the gunda world to find out their godfather. But, there are complications because the real Prince killed a man called Shams and now his sister in revealing clothes is also working for the crime gang with a hidden desire to kill Prince.
   But, this guy is not prince and so when this news gets to the sister, we hear the bells of love ringing on the Cox’s Bazar sea beach.
   The result is the song ‘50 per cent kacche asho, 50 per cent ashi ami, 100 per cent duijonate dujon bhalobashi.’ The love interest is Nadi, a newcomer and if she can maintain her figure then she will go100 per cent in FDC, that’s for sure.
   But, the police want a red diary that houses the names and contacts of all underworld leaders and when Raja steals the book from a safe that looks like a box made badly with paper, the game becomes heated.
   And in between all this we get Ali Raj (resurrection) who is an Interpol officer also in pursuit of Prince and the gang. After a lot of ‘komor dulani’ and ‘prem-sagore-falafali’ with the song, ‘jodi boli prothom, bhalo laga, jodi boli prothom ratri jaaga, jodi boli prothom shawpna dekha, shei tumi, shudhu tumi’ we end up in a magnificent spot with hills on both sides with a fountain in between; well, top marks should go for choosing this area. Who said we do not have breath-taking locations?
   By this time it transpires that Ali Raj is not an INTERPOL officer but the leader of the gang and when the SP discovers him cavorting with women and crooks drinking whisky that looks more like Coke, he shoots down the police officer.
   But, as the SP dies Raja falls into trouble because apart from the SP, no one knows that this is not the real Prince.
   Anyway, after a lot of twists we come back to the grand finale where women in abnormally tight clothes beat up the gundas and Rubel, wearing a white shirt, white trousers and a white overcoat flies in from no where ( here comes the flying man in white).
   The terrorists are there and one leader of the group a Talukder really caught my fancy with his dazzling white hair, beard and eye-brows (Surf excel?).
   Be that as it may, after the bad guys are pulverized to pulp and Afzal Sharif kicked in the ass by the women, we get yet another twist; but I leave that for you to find out.
   Not a bad film but someone tells me that it’s a remake of an old Amitabh flick.
   Don’t know about that but the matter of taking off masks reminded me of Misison Impossible. Well, this reviewer saw the whole film; that does make him equal to agent Ethan Hunt.

‘The Prince isn’t charming. The Princess isn’t sleeping. The sidekick isn’t helping. The ogre is the hero. Fairy tales will never be the same again.’ With this tagline the 2001 blockbuster and winner of the 2002 Oscar for the best animated picture Shrek has already earned the credentials as the ‘greatest fairy tale never told.’
   Although the movie was made in 2001, it remains evergreen in the minds of the film buffs. And good tidings for the Dhaka audience: Star Cineplex, the only international standard multiplex cinema theatre of the country, is to screen Shrek from August 11 till September 6. In the run up to the screening, a media launch of the movie was held on August 9 at the theatre.
   Ten lucky winners of the Star Cineplex’s special campaigns titled ‘I know Star Cineplex’ and ‘Shrek Quiz Contest’, conducted at the Bashundhara City Mall and Star Cineplex website, won free tickets to watch Shrek along with a friend.
   Crammed with hilarious characters, impressive 3D animation, and attention-grabbing storytelling, Shrek is designed not just to entertain, but to enthrall.
   A boisterous reaction with endless laughter is expected every moment with the ornery ogre named Shrek (Mike Myers), lived in a far away swamp and during his mission to rescue the beautiful princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) for the evil Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) with a wisecracking Donkey (Eddie Murphy). Based on the children’s book by William Steig, Shrek is directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, is a must see entertaining movie of our time. ‘Four long years after its launching, we feel no hesitation in bringing this movie to our movie buffs, which is in fact for the first time an animated movie is screening in Bangladesh commercially,’ said Mirka Rahman, Managing Director, Showmotion Limited. ‘We’ve already imported its sequel Shrek 2 and two other latest movies—Sahara and The Aviator, which will be shown in the coming September,’ she informed.
   Highlighted on their new marketing policy Mirka said, ‘Star Cineplex is proud to announce that our movie schedule is now available in our cellular phones, which is enjoying the GPRS facility effective from August 9. Apart from this Star Cineplex and Toggi World are offering special discount packages.
   And above all for the school students we are offering 30 percent discount on showing their ID’s.’
   On the occasion of the media launch Star Cineplex invited a bunch of kids to enjoy the movie. ‘Although I’ve watched the movie before on the small screen, the true excitement was somehow missing.
   Today I am really happy to watch it on a big screen with state of the art acoustics,’ said Samiha, one of the lucky child invitees.

Shubha, a full-length feature film will hit Balaka on August 12. Based on Tagore’s short story Shubha, the film is scripted and directed by Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed and Chashi Nazrul Islam respectively. Aiming to promote quality films, Impress Telefilm Ltd has produced the film.
   Different roles are played by Purnima, Shakib Khan, Sujata, Tushar Khan, Saleh Ahmed, Moumi, Lopa, Eti and others.
   The plot of the film revolves around three young girls of Banikantha who lead a comfortable life along with his wife and three daughters ––– Sukeshini, Suhasini and Shubhasini among them Shubhasini is dumb.

A documentary show on Barbara Hepworth, a noted contemporary British sculptor, will be held today at 6:30pm at the auditorium of the British Council.
   The show will be followed by a discussion.
   Barbara Hepworth, born in 1903 in Yorkshire, is a major British artist of the twentieth century.
   Bangladeshi art critics will discuss on the artist. Students from Institute of Fine Art of the Dhaka University, private universities and eminent artists are also invited to this educational art event.
   Hepworth died in 1975 in a fire at her studio in St. Ives.

Fanatics of "The Matrix" and anime-philes alike will revel in this mind-blowing collection of nine animated short films. A brainchild of directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, The Animatrix" serves to underscore and shed light on the war between the humans and the machines--- a war that ultimately led to the creation of The Matrix. One of the films, The Flight Of The Osiris," serves as the prequel to The Matrix Reloaded' Directors, computer graphics artists, and anime illustrators bring their varied storytelling talents to create a series of excellent backstories for The Matrix Trilogy. For these alone "The Animatrix" is not to be missed.
   HBO
   9:30pm
   Starring
   Featuring the voices of:, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss
   Genre
   Science Fiction/Fantasy