Contemporary Bangla movies to binge watch over the weekend

Komola Rocket

The story portrays the intersecting lives of people coming from different social classes as they travel together on a steamship. The plot unfolds when their buried secrets and lustful desires start to unfold. The film has been nominated for this year’s Bangladesh National Film Awards in multiple categories.

Jonaki

The plot revolves around an eighty-year old woman lying on her deathbed as she recollects the memories of her lifetime—childhood, adolescence, first love and tumultuous married life—all at once. The movie offers stunning visuals of memories intermixed with dreams, which go beyond traditional forms of storytelling.

Under Construction

The story of a Dhaka-based theatre actress, who amidst the toxicity of urban lifestyle and conflicts with her husband, attempts to recreate a classic play in the political context of modern times. She goes on to search for her identity, freedom and sexuality.

Bhalobashar Shohor

A couple united through an inter-caste marriage, elopes to Syria and eventually gets separated by war. The wife come backs to her home town of Kolkata with her paralysed child and has to go through an entirely new struggle for survival.