Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s most renowned work was a huge success, premiering as the closing film at Busan, winning awards at Asia Pacific Screen, Kolkata and Dubai, and screening in festivals all over the world, before becoming Bangladesh’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards.
The story takes place in a village, where the local leader, Amin, considers almost every device that can show pictures as haram (forbidden by Islamic Law), including television, mobile phones, photographs and computers. As the film begins, his son, Solaiman, asks him permission to buy a mobile phone supposedly because he needs it for his business, but actually to talk more with his girlfriend, Kohinoor, whose father, who has become rich working in Malaysia, easily allowed her the “privilege” of having one. Expectedly, Amin declines, and Solaiman turns to his right hand man, Mojnu, for help, with the latter actually managing to turn Amin around,...
The story takes place in a village, where the local leader, Amin, considers almost every device that can show pictures as haram (forbidden by Islamic Law), including television, mobile phones, photographs and computers. As the film begins, his son, Solaiman, asks him permission to buy a mobile phone supposedly because he needs it for his business, but actually to talk more with his girlfriend, Kohinoor, whose father, who has become rich working in Malaysia, easily allowed her the “privilege” of having one. Expectedly, Amin declines, and Solaiman turns to his right hand man, Mojnu, for help, with the latter actually managing to turn Amin around,...
- 8/5/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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