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Homeland’s evil cancer
29/ 4/2005
AFTER the success of 'Keetha Faylam', director Luthfur Rahman is back again with his latest offering 'Keetha Oilow' -What Happened
SO far Sylheti films have been hardly Oscar material.
They may be being made in large numbers but most are stinkers with
poor production and little sense of story.
Director and writer Luthfur Rahman has set himself the aim of
tackling a serious issue, the corruption and abuse UK Bangladeshi's
face at Deshi airports when they return 'home'.
Furthermore his shocking tale has been told in a technically
professional manner in terms of cinematography and acting.
Oldham based Correct Exposure preoduction team have penned a
creative script, cast renowned Bangladeshi award winning actors,
Shanta Islam and Junah Chowdhury and teamed them with our very own
local talents Sazzadur Rahman and Apu Chowdhury. It's a brilliant
result.
It follows the journey of a young Bangladeshi, Kamal (Sazzadur
Rahman), a graduate who is unemployed. He lives in Sylhet where
rejection in job interviews and his inability to fulfil his late
father's wish, to build a high school in the village, leave him
thoroughly demoralised.
The only light in Kamal's life comes in the form of his cousin
Banu, whose pranks and jokes keep him humoured. Both start to fall
in love, but this takes a back seat as Kamal desperately looks for
work.
Kamal's mother, Ruksana (Islam) has worked very hard to bring him
up and educate him on her own. In his frustration Kamal decides to
leave Bangladesh for the UK. But, there is one problem, he doesn't
have any money and so he borrows from his uncle. He finally ends up
in Oldham.
There, Kamal meets his future wife and the film shows how a
penniless man in a foreign country can be successful with enough
determintaion to suceed.
But it's his journey back to Bangladesh that constitutes the centre
of the drama where Kamal and his family receive injustice and
inhumane treatment by the Bangladeshi airport authority.
Without giving too much away, the film ends on this bleak note of
justice ignored. But it is Rahman's intention to expose this evil
corruption and 'Keetha Oilow' is the beginning of a welcome fight
back.
No doubt many Sylhetis in the UK who have experienced travelling to
Bangladesh will relate to this tale.
British Sylhetis are virtually keeping the Bangladesh economy going
by investing in land, business and supporting their families, yet
when in trouble and they seek justice, it goes ignored.
The murder of British born traveller Surat Miah at Dhaka airport a
couple of years ago, and the recent physical abuse of a British
Bengali at the same airport a few weeks ago, highlights the issues
of travelling to the 'homeland'.
S.B
Keetha Oilow is out on 15 May.
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