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Shyamol Chhaya

শ্যামল ছায়া

2004

During the 1971 Liberation War, a mismatched group of refugees crowds aboard a rickety steamboat to flee advancing Pakistani soldiers. Confined together on the river, strangers become a fragile community. A wartime drama.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Bangladesh

This film is stop 5 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Bangladesh. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

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