{{Short description|Bangladeshi drama film (2013)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Ant Story | native_name = পিঁপড়াবিদ্যা | image = Ant Story Film.jpg | caption = Ant Story | director = Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | producer = Chabial | writer = Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | starring = {{Plainlist| * Sheena Chohan * Noor Imran Mithu * Aryan Ashik * G. Sumdany Don }} | music = Hridoy Khan & Armanul Haque | cinematography = Golam Maola Nabir | editing = Mostofa Sarwar Farooki & Khaled Mahmud Rajan | studio = Chabial | released = {{Film date|df=yes|2013|12|08|Dubai International Film Festival}} | runtime = 92 minutes | country = Bangladesh | language = Bengali | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Ant Story''''' ({{langx|bn|পিঁপড়াবিদ্যা}}) is a 2013 Bangladeshi drama film directed & written by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, featuring Sheena Chohan, Noor Imran Mithu and others.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/Wz8wVTskLmToFI982A7KGO/From-Bangladesh-with-love.html|title=From Bangladesh, with love|last=Ghosh|first=Sankhayan|date=2017-03-03|work=livemint.com|access-date=2017-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timeoutdubai.com/films/details/2686-pipra-bidya-ant-story|title=Pipra Bidya (Ant Story)|website=Time Out Dubai|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-28}}</ref>
==Plot== Everyday on the way back to his suburban home on the other side of the river, struggling young graduate Mithu keeps gazing at the dazzling city of Dhaka which is like a big pie. Everybody wants to have a stake in that pie. Mithu feels he is not properly equipped to win over his stake. So he starts to equip himself in an unusual and unethical fashion. He realizes when the world can not be changed according to his wish; it is easier to create a new customized world in his head! He embarks on a journey of faking, lying, and fantasizing. He feels the immense pleasure of creativity because 'truth is what one has while lies are what one creates'. It then turns out to be a dangerously 'creative' game of sex-lies-and videotape.
==Cast== * ''Sheena Chohan'' as Rima * ''Noor Imran Mithu'' as Mithu * ''Mukit Zakaria'' as Mithu
== Production == The film was produced by Chabial and Impress Telefilm.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/ant-story-pipra-bidya-dubai-667016|title=Ant Story (Pipra Bidya): Dubai Review|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2018-05-28|language=en}}</ref>
== Release == In 2017 the movie was released on Netflix.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/film/bangladesh-now-through-the-lens-of-mostafa-sarwar-farooki|title=Bangladesh Now, Through the Lens of Mostofa Sarwar Farooki – The Wire|website=The Wire|access-date=2018-05-28}}</ref> On 13 July 2014, the movie had its North American Premiere at the Asian Film Festival, Dallas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://seligpolyscope.com/2014-asian-film-festival-dallas-announces-full-festival-schedule/|title=2014 Asian Film Festival of Dallas Announces Full Festival Schedule {{!}} Selig Polyscope Company|website=seligpolyscope.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529055935/http://seligpolyscope.com/2014-asian-film-festival-dallas-announces-full-festival-schedule/|archive-date=29 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Critical reception== The film received mixed to positive reviews. ''The Daily Star'' wrote "with a small cast and a complex narrative, he delivers an ample plateful for the serious film connoisseur, but probably not for the average cinema-goer".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/pipra-bidya-48914|title=Pipra Bidya|date=2014-11-06|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-05-28|language=en}}</ref>
It was included in the Muhr AsiaAfrica programme at the Dubai International Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/line-up-for-diff-s-muhr-asiaafrica-programme-revealed-1.451368|title=Line-up for DIFF's Muhr AsiaAfrica programme revealed|work=The National|access-date=2018-05-28|language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Mostofa Sarwar Farooki}}
Category:2013 films Category:2013 comedy-drama films Category:2013 Bangladeshi films Category:Bengali-language Bangladeshi films Category:Bangladeshi comedy-drama films Category:Films scored by Hridoy Khan Category:Films directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Category:2013 Bengali-language films Category:Films shot in Bangladesh Category:Films produced by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Category:Impress Telefilm films