(RealTime Bangladesh Blog Report, February 25, 2011)
We blogged some time ago about Nirjhor’s Namuna held at esteemed Bangladesh Film Censor Board (BFCB). Now we have another runaway film- Rubaiyat Hossain’s “Meherjaan. The problem is BFCB failed to ban it, despite its anti-national narrative! Our Bengali tribe is thankful to film’s distributor Mr. Habibur Rahman Khan (Prothom Alo, January, 29, 2011) - who despite his financial sacrifice finally could stop this contamination of our sacred history by romantic imagination (or actually it is not- it based on a Boston ghost story... read on)!
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| Session House where British General Burgoyne and Her American Lover Lucy's Ghosts still roam |
The film "Meherjaan" imagines a politically forbidden love affair between a Pakistani soldier and a sexy Bangladeshi girl (Read the synopsis here) in 1971 Liberation War- and surely bruises our most sensitive nerves!
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