Talk:The Last Kiss (1931 film)

Bangladeshi?
Characterizing the 1931 film, in Wikipedia's voice, as Bangladeshi (Bangladesh didn't become a nation until 1971) is grating. Zakir Hossain Raju does argue that The Last Kiss could be regarded as the first full length feature produced in Bangladesh film history. As one of only a handful of academics writing about Bangladeshi cinema, his opinion carries significant weight, but it is far from the academic consensus. Even he writes:
 * "When did Bangladesh cinema begin? Historians of Bangladesh cinema, who are mainly concerned with theatrical feature film production, are in consensus in answering the question. They locate the beginning of Bangladesh cinema with the making of The Face and the Mask in 1956, and call this the "first" film (read theatrical feature film) produced in (then) East Pakistan/East Bengal. (p. 66)"


 * "Examples above tally with many others who like to claim The Face and the Mask as the beginning of Bangladesh cinema. This claim is also well supported in most survey histories of Bangladesh cinema, including those authored by Kabir, Hayat, Mutsuddi, Quader and Zaki. (p. 72)"


 * "The Last Kiss was never identified as the beginning of Bangladesh film history. (p. 79)"

It would be more neutral to: --Worldbruce (talk) 05:58, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Write that The Last Kiss is a 1931 British Indian silent film, and that it was filmed in "the eastern part of the (then) Bengal province of British India" (Raju p. 66), or some similar formulation.
 * 2) Attribute inline the opinion that it's the first full-length feature film in Bangladesh film history, with an explanation that the scholarly consensus disagrees.
 * , I have made the changes but Cinema of Bangladesh may need some edits.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  10:29, 25 June 2020 (UTC)