India’s Mithila Palkar (Netflix’s “Little Things”) and Jaaved Jaaferi (“Sooryavanshi”) and Bangladesh’s Siam Ahmed (“Shaan”) have joined the cast of “In the Ring (Story of a Burqa Boxer).”
Set in the female Muslim boxing community of Khidderpore, Kolkata, India, the film is a psychological thriller about Shama, a 17-year-old boxer who exchanges places with her double to fight in the national championship when she is framed in her aunt’s murder.
The cast also includes Razia Shabnam, one of the first Indian women to become an international boxing referee and coach.
The Hindi-language film will be directed by U.S.-based filmmaker Alka Raghuram, who previously directed the acclaimed documentary “Burqa Boxers,” about Muslim women boxers in Kolkata.
The project is being produced by Sreyashii Sengupta for Singapore-based Darpan Global and Souvikk Dasgupta for Oriizon Global in India, with Los Angles-based Rick Ambros serving as executive producer.
Set in the female Muslim boxing community of Khidderpore, Kolkata, India, the film is a psychological thriller about Shama, a 17-year-old boxer who exchanges places with her double to fight in the national championship when she is framed in her aunt’s murder.
The cast also includes Razia Shabnam, one of the first Indian women to become an international boxing referee and coach.
The Hindi-language film will be directed by U.S.-based filmmaker Alka Raghuram, who previously directed the acclaimed documentary “Burqa Boxers,” about Muslim women boxers in Kolkata.
The project is being produced by Sreyashii Sengupta for Singapore-based Darpan Global and Souvikk Dasgupta for Oriizon Global in India, with Los Angles-based Rick Ambros serving as executive producer.
- 5/20/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Abu Shahed Emon, a Bangladeshi filmmaker with close ties to Busan, is back at the festival with “No Ground Beneath the Feet,” directed by debutant Mohammad Rabby Mridha. He braved two weeks of quarantine to be in Busan in person.
The film, which premieres at the festival’s ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ strand, follows the travails of an ambulance driver in Dhaka and the struggles of his wife in a slowly shrinking river delta, while tackling universal themes of climate change, poverty and societal ills. The cast includes Mostafa Monwar, who won best performance at the 2016 Singapore International Film Festival for “Live from Dhaka”), Priyam Archi and Deepanwita Martin (“Made in Bangladesh”).
Emon has been busy during the pandemic and will continue being so in the months to come. As a producer, he has a raft of films in various stages of production via his Golpo Rajjo Films.
Drama...
The film, which premieres at the festival’s ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ strand, follows the travails of an ambulance driver in Dhaka and the struggles of his wife in a slowly shrinking river delta, while tackling universal themes of climate change, poverty and societal ills. The cast includes Mostafa Monwar, who won best performance at the 2016 Singapore International Film Festival for “Live from Dhaka”), Priyam Archi and Deepanwita Martin (“Made in Bangladesh”).
Emon has been busy during the pandemic and will continue being so in the months to come. As a producer, he has a raft of films in various stages of production via his Golpo Rajjo Films.
Drama...
- 10/9/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
“Hell and Heaven” released in Bangladesh as “Poramon 2” is a spiritual sequel to the 2013 romantic drama film “Poramon”. “Hell and Heaven” was released to critical acclaim for a commercial film in Bangladesh, then went on to become one of the highest grossing films to come out of Bangladesh.
The film begins with the suicide of Jasmine, a young woman who had been betrayed by her lover. The Islamic society doesn’t accept the suicide and even a proper burial is denied for her. Her father digs her grave on the river bank and performs the funeral rites and only Sujan, a 10-year-old boy from the village takes part in it.
10 years later, a grown up Sujan (Siam Ahmed) reenacts films of actor Salman Shah in front of the villagers and dreams of becoming an actor while his soft-spoken brother earns money by working for the richest person of the village,...
The film begins with the suicide of Jasmine, a young woman who had been betrayed by her lover. The Islamic society doesn’t accept the suicide and even a proper burial is denied for her. Her father digs her grave on the river bank and performs the funeral rites and only Sujan, a 10-year-old boy from the village takes part in it.
10 years later, a grown up Sujan (Siam Ahmed) reenacts films of actor Salman Shah in front of the villagers and dreams of becoming an actor while his soft-spoken brother earns money by working for the richest person of the village,...
- 10/3/2018
- by Jithin Mohan
- AsianMoviePulse
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