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The 19th National Rabindra-sangeet Festival, to be organised by the Bangladesh Rabindra-sangeet Shilpi Sangstha, will begin on March 5.
   President of the organisation, Kalim Sharifi will inaugurate the festival in the evening at the Shaukat Osman Memorial Hall of the Central Public Library in the city.
   Cultural activist and Tagore song researcher, Professor ABM Nurul Anwar of Mymensingh will be present as chief guest.
   The festival, dedicated to the late veteran artistes––Waheedul Haque, Selim Al-Deen, Jahanara Nishi and Abinash Chandra Shil, will continue till March 8.
   The four-day programme will feature music, recitation and seminar, the organisers told a press briefing at the National Press Club on Monday.
   The organisers will honour Nikhil Sen, a distinguished cultural personality of Barisal, this year.
   About two hundreds of artistes from across the country will participate at the festival, hoped the organisers.
   Kalim Sharafi, Tapan Mahmood, Nahar Zamil, Salma Akbar, Sazed Akbar, Mahadev Ghosh, Bula Mahmud and Juditha Ohlmacher of Gemcon Group, among others, addressed the briefing.

The premiere of Raja… ebong anyanya (The King and the Dark Chamber… and others), the 14th production of Prachyanat, will be held at 7:00pm today at the British Council auditorium in the city.
   The play, based on Rabindranath Tagore’s play Raja, will be directed by Azad Abul Kalam while the set design and lighting will be done by Mohammad Saiful Islam.
   Kartik has worked for music and Snata Shahrin for choreography. Kazi Towfiqul Islam Emon has worked for costume and Mashiuddoula Azad for props.
   According to the organisers this play will be the first multimedia theatre production in the country.
   The use of modern technology like projectors and television monitors that will add an additional dimension to this play, they said.

Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard has apparently admitted to questioning what happened during the 9/11 terror attacks on America in September 2001.
   ‘I think we’re lied to about a lot of things,’ she said during a French TV interview broadcast in 2006, which has resurfaced on the internet.
   Cotillard, 32, won her Oscar for La Vie en Rose, for playing singer Edith Piaf.
   Her lawyer, Vincent Toledano, told news agency AFP she had ‘never intended to contest nor question the attacks’.
   He added she ‘regrets the way old remarks have been taken out of context’.
   In the interview, given to French TV network Paris Premiere, Cotillard appears to suggest the attacks on the World Trade Center were staged to avoid the expense of refurbishing them.