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Shonibar Bikel (lit. 'Saturday afternoon') is a 2019 Bangladeshi-German-Russian co-production film directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, a one shot political thriller, inspired from the July 2016 Dhaka attack. [1] The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Moscow International Film Festival.
An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to defend their own humanistic values.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
- 2023-11-24
Mar 10, 2023 · An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place at a peaceful cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The gunmen use religion to divide and kill, while the surviving hostages, all of them Muslim, try to defend...
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- Parambrata Chattopadhyay
- Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
- Action, Mystery & Thriller
May 10, 2019 · ‘Saturday Afternoon’ (‘Shonibar Bikel’): Film Review Inspired by the attack on a Dhaka cafe in July 2016, Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki exposes terrorism’s phony religious ...
Simply put: The very tacky and soulless “Shonibar Bikel (Saturday Afternoon)” is the scripted drama equivalent of a snuff film. Jaaz Multimedia released “Shonibar Bikel (Saturday Afternoon)” in select U.S. cinemas on March 10, 2023.
Dec 4, 2023 · There’s a strange tepidness at the heart of Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s film, Saturday Afternoon (Shonibar Bikel). Given the charged terrain it walks through, the film is bogged down from the get-go by its declamatory approach to picking apart what it wishes to say.
An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to defend their own humanistic values.
