Yet the film managed to secure the Best Actor and Best Director awards at the Singapore International Film Festival, and participated in the competition segment of numerous international film festivals around the globe, including the renowned International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Saad’s micro-budget film brought groundbreaking achievement to the Bangladeshi fiction film scene for the first time, but these credentials must not have been good enough for our film theatre owners. Having become curious due to the brilliantly cut trailer of “Live from Dhaka” released in 2016, I could not wait for the film to hit Bangladeshi theatres. Although “Live From Dhaka” is Saad’s directorial debut, the beautiful craftsmanship of the screenplay, visuals, and editing suggests otherwise. I may have been disappointed by poor audio and bad acting, but “Live from Dhaka” has established its own original cinematic language in a country that was longing for it.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 31, 2019 10:18 UTC