The appeal board of the Bangladesh Film Censor Board finally cleared Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's much-talked-about film 'Saturday Afternoon' for releasing it in local theatres without any intervention on Saturday.
The film is now all set for release.
Despite winning several international awards, Farooki faced multiple hurdles to release the movie at home despite submitting it to get censor clearance on January 9, 2019.
The appeal board comprising of actresses and lawmaker Suborna Mustafa, actress Sucharita, former additional secretary Nurul Karim, journalist and former censor board vice-chairman Shyamal Dutta on Saturday watched the movie again and cleared it for release in theatres without any intervention.
The appeal board just asked Farooki to add a disclaimer saying the film is not a direct depiction of the events that took place in Holey Artisan restaurant in Dhaka on July 1, 2016.
The film revolves around an unprecedented terrorist attack that takes place in a peaceful café in the centre of Dhaka, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists used religion to divide and kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them Muslims, try to defend their own humanistic values. The film unravels the clashes and contradictions of religion, ideology, and civilisation through a terror drama.
One of the major characteristics of the film ‘Saturday afternoon’ is that the entire film was made in one continuous shot.
It stars, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Manoj Kumar Pramanik, Zahid Hasan and many others.
