Shipan Mit and Mahiya Mahi duo’s first big screen venture “Desha: The Leader”, a political thriller, hit the cinemas in the country yesterday.
Movie lovers can enjoy the first directorial venture of Saikat Nasir at least 70 screens in the opening week across the country. The film portrays a story about a political reality show.
Debutant Shipon Mitra has played the role of an honest and young political leader, Desha—the title character.
While Mahi has played as an anchor of the television reality show, that aims to find out an honest and popular political leader. The rest of the cast include Tarique Anam Khan, Sohel Khan and Manjurul Karim.
Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, Mahi said it was challenging for to play the role as she has recently played a character of a journalist in another film named “Warning” directed by Shafi Uddin Shafi.
A large amount of Chroma key, a special effects technique for compositing, and post-production editing has been used in the film, marking the improvement in the technical department of Bangladeshi productions.
However, the big budget film produced by Jaaz Mulimedia planned to release it on December 12. But later the release was postponed due to censorship issues.
