Tale of the Darkest Night
(Shei Rater Kotha Bolte Eshechi)

Tale of the Darkest Night tells the story of the killings by the Pakistani army in Dhaka University. Surviving members and witnesses speak, and bring alive the havoc of that night. The documentary also includes the wireless messages the Pakistani army exchanged that night which a Bengali engineer accidentally stumbled upon and recorded while trying to tune in to the BBC for news of the crackdown in his country.

Kawsar Chowdhary studied documentary and other filmmaking at the Development Education and Communication Unit of the Indian Space Research Organization in Ahmedabad, India, and the Dhaka Film Institute Archive. He is an independent filmmaker and has also worked with the BBC (Bangladesh), WTN, and Granada Television on issues like the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971, democratization in Bangladesh, culture, religious beliefs etc.