'Made in Bangladesh' shooting wraps up

Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain has finished shooting of her new film 'Made in Bangladesh.' Beginning from April 17 this year, the shoot took place in Dhaka and Gazipur. Starting from April 18 and ending on June 1, the film was shot over a span of 36 days.

The film revolves around Shimu, a young ready-made-garment worker in Dhaka, gets involved with the workers' union while facing her husband's restrictive ideology at home.

In 2012, a fire broke out at Tazreen Fashion Factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 117 workers. On April 2013, the Rana Plaza garment factory building collapsed, and over 1000 workers lost their lives.

As a response to these tragedies, director Rubaiyat Hossain wanted to make a film about the resilience of the young women engaged in the Ready Made Garment sector.

'Made in Bangladesh' is about how an individual young woman navigates and creates her own synthesis out of the forces of capitalism, leftist politics and Islamization.

The director said about the film, 'As I am a woman, I want to tell women's stories in my cinema, especially those women who struggle like me in a patriarchal society.

I think telling women's story makes me come to terms with my own self as a woman. Cinema is an international and strong medium that offers a space for women's solidarity.' The film casts Rikita Nandini Shimu, Dipannita Martin, Mayabi Maya, Novera Rahman and Parveen Paru among others.