<\/a>Director Amit Ashraf\u2019s debutant film Udhao has been screened in a number of prestigious international film festivals like Logan Film Festival, Canada International Film Festival, Goteborg International Film Festival and Portugal Underground Film Festival. The film has brought home seven international awards and grants.
\nA press show, also the first screening of the film in Bangladesh, of Udhao was screened on September 28 at the Star Cineplex, and from October 04, the film will be commercially released in around five cinemas.
\nThe casts of the film includes Shahed Ali and Shakil Ahmed in the role of two protagonists \u2013 Babu and Akbar respectively \u2013 along with Animesh Aich, Ritu Sattar, Nawshaba Ahmed, Shaheen Akhtar Swarna, Saiful Islam and Ithila Islam.
\nUdhao features an off-track thriller story of a man named Babu who is a school-van puller. Babu\u2019s passion is to find out the men who have left their family.
\nAccidentally, Babu meets a man named Akbar, who is participating in the poll to be a member of the parliament. Babu then kidnaps this man in a heroic and melodramatic fashion from the latter\u2019s house.
\nIn cinematic turns and twists, it becomes clear that Akbar is Babu\u2019s father who left his family 20 years back and has become a rich and corrupt politician through criminal activities.
\nAkbar turns repentant after knowing the fate of his family members whom he left forever. The scene of Akbar\u2019s repentance and remorse seems soothing until the last scene where Akbar gets Babu and the other members of the family killed.
\nAshraf, claiming to be a director who creates films with realistic portrayal of stories, has demonstrated how Akbar cannot carry out his act of repentance due to the influences of the society through the harsh ending of the film.
\nCinematography of the film is quite brilliantly done with distant and close shots of rural areas and greenery. Moreover, in the story a subtle distinction of village and city are drawn which is validated by cinematography too.
\nNo song is added to the film as a separate item. There are only two folk numbers by Fakir Laal Mia that the actors sometimes hum keeping natural flow of the plot.
\nVisitors at the Cineplex welcomed the director and spoke highly of the production.
\n\u2018It was wonderful. Good story and good execution of the story,\u2019 said popular singer Anusheh Anadil.
\n\u2018Among the actors Shahed Ali in the role of Babu and Shakil Ahmed in the role of Akbar were brilliant,\u2019 said Kollol Kumar, a visitor.
\nThe film is the debutant production of Kazi House Productions.<\/p>\n

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