Bangladeshi western? As odd as it might sound, that’s exactly what we’ve got with Sadik Ahmed’s The Last Thakur. Here’s how the London Film Festival described it:
UK film-maker Sadik Ahmed directs this intense contemporary Western, which takes place in a remote town in the marshlands of Bangladesh. A mysterious young man, Kala, arrives armed with a rifle. He immediately creates a stir in the small town and especially attracts the attention of two rival leaders: the ruthless and powerful Chairman who runs the place and purports to represent his people and the one man that stands in his way: the local Thakur, one of the last Hindu landlords, who is manically re-claiming all the surrounding land for which loans remain un-paid in order to build a temple.
Walking into the middle of this bitter feud, Kala soon finds himself approached by both men to take their side.
UK film-maker Sadik Ahmed directs this intense contemporary Western, which takes place in a remote town in the marshlands of Bangladesh. A mysterious young man, Kala, arrives armed with a rifle. He immediately creates a stir in the small town and especially attracts the attention of two rival leaders: the ruthless and powerful Chairman who runs the place and purports to represent his people and the one man that stands in his way: the local Thakur, one of the last Hindu landlords, who is manically re-claiming all the surrounding land for which loans remain un-paid in order to build a temple.
Walking into the middle of this bitter feud, Kala soon finds himself approached by both men to take their side.
- 2/9/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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