2024-09-22 23:42:26
There is an uproar across the country over the thrashing of a young man named Tofazzal Hossain in Dhaka University’s Fazlul Haque Muslim (FH) Hall. Students and common people are vocal in demanding proper investigation and trial of this incident.
Anyone who sees the video of the beating of Tofazzal Hossain will be shocked. Ashfaq Nipun, the famous producer of ‘Mahanagar’, has also been deeply moved by this matter. He gave a long post on Facebook about this. This director explained some questions and some feelings.
Ashfaq Nipun says at the beginning of writing, ‘I only think of their mothers. A mentally deranged young man named Tofazzal was beaten to death by some students of Dhaka University, I wonder what Tofazzal’s mother would do if she saw it? I know, he died earlier. But even so, he was standing 3 feet away from Tofajjal, he was feeling helpless seeing that he could not save his son! Maybe he was hoping to see his son eating rice that nothing will happen to him and he will survive this journey! Maybe even after seeing the level of torture, he was pleading to God that the boy should die, that the boy should not go through any more pain!
Ashfaq Nipun asked about the feelings of Abrar Fahad of BUET, Biswajit, the mother of Chhatra League activist killed in Rajshahi and said, ‘I also think about Abrar Fahad’s mother. When Abrar was being beaten with a stamp, his mother would have suffered if he was there! I think about Biswajit’s mother, what could she have done to save her son if she was in front of him when he was angry? I think about Chhatra League activist Gungu Masud who was killed in Rajshahi, when he could not get water even after asking for water, would his mother have run to fetch water for her son if he was there? Or did not go to fetch water for fear of killing his son if he moved? Or the death of Didar, the leader of the volunteer party in Gopalganj? If his mother had been around at that time, could she have saved the boy?’
A distraught Ashfaq tries to feel the agony of a mother who loses her child. In his words, ‘I only think of those mothers who, from 9 months of conception to giving birth to a child and raising that child for the whole life, grow up and find out one day that someone has killed their son or daughter. I wonder what goes through them. I don’t get the floor. Everything seems dark.’
Referring to his mother, Ashfaq Nipun said, ‘I think about my mother. I think, if someone kills me like this, how will my mother feel? How will he feel helpless? What do you think?’