Bengali Beauty

Bengali Beauty (2018)

A demure medical student falls in love with a brash Bangladesh Radio deejay while listening to his World Music show during the revolutionary '70s.

Date of release
2018-02-16
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Drama, Music
Director
Rahsaan Noor

Casting

Interesting facts

Bengali Beauty is a Bangladeshi period romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Rahsaan Noor. It stars Noor as a brash radio deejay and Mumtaheena Toya as a demure medical student, who fall in love in Dhaka during a politically turbulent 1975. Sarah Alam and Ashfique Rizwan make their feature film debuts in supporting roles.

Production

Noor became inspired to write the script for Bengali Beauty one day after hearing Can't Take My Eyes Off You by Frankie Valli. The setting of the film came to him from a film that had been offered to him before as well as a series of interviews with his aunt, actress Mita Rahman, who used to be a DJ for the popular World Music program on Bangladesh Betar. Bangladesh Betar and World Music are central to the film's narrative.

The film was first announced at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Nevada, in May 2016. Ridy Sheikh was originally cast as Moyna; however, she was later replaced by Toya.

The principal photography commenced on 2 May 2017 and lasted for one month. Bengali Beauty was shot on location at various iconic settings in Dhaka, such as Bangladesh Betar, the University of Dhaka, and Notre Dame College, among others, as these locations had remained without renovation since the 1970s and were authentic to the film's script.

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