Mohua signed in Bangla feature film Black

“Black comprises an excellent and extremely professional team, which is very much essential for any good movie. I am sure; it will be widely accepted and appreciated by audience in Bangladesh and the world.”

 Entertainment Reporter

(December 21, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian) Popular model Mohua has been signed to play the main role in Bangla feature film Black, which is being made targeting local and international audience. And with this movie, Mohua will enter the Bangladeshi film industry as an actor.

Story of Black is based on the theme of rise of radical Islam in Bangladesh as well as growing influence of war criminals and collaborators of Pakistani occupation forces during the war of independence of Bangladesh. In the movie, it will be shown as to how Muslim men are encouraged by the clergies to have more than one wife, as Islam allows polygamy. Under such situation, wives of the Muslim men ultimately turn into mere slaves, thus taking part in domestic works as well as helping the husband in agro production. When a wife becomes physically ill, the husband shows unwillingness to send her to a nearby hospital for treatment, as the man considers hospitals evil, as male and female doctors work together there and women without a burqa.

Whipping and other forms of severe physical torture of men and women on various charges gradually become regular in the village. These are applied by local ‘Sharia Committee’ formed by clergies and Islamic fanatics.

BLACK is a film, which shows the current situation in rural Bangladesh [which actually is very similar to villages in other Muslim nations], where Sharia law is forcefully imposed on people while systematic elimination of religious minorities continues.

Hidden tears of Muslim women under the imposed Islamic veils are clearly shown in this film.

This film is against Sharia, Islamism, religious intolerance, hate speech and repression of women under Sharia law. This film is aimed at creating massive awareness in the people in Muslim nations in standing against Islamism and Sharia, and voicing the need for reform in Islam, Koran and Islamic codes.

The initial language of BLACK is Bangla, while it will be dubbed in various languages in future. There are around 300 million Bangla speaking people in Bangladesh and India only. Our initial target group are these 300 million people. Later, with dubbing in other languages as well as using sub-titles in English, French, Hindi, Urdu etc, we shall reach a few hundred millions people in the entire Muslim world.

Commenting on signing in the film, actor Muhua said, “I particularly loved the extremely powerful script of the film. Moreover, it is truly an honor working with internationally known award winning journalist Shoaib Choudhury, who is the director of this movie.”

She said, “Black comprises an excellent and extremely professional team, which is very much essential for any good movie. I am sure; it will be widely accepted and appreciated by audience in Bangladesh and the world.”

Songs of this film are sung by eminent singers like Runa Laila, Andrew Kishore, SI Tutul and Fakir Shahbuddin. Talented music director Ali Aftab Loni is working as the music director of this film, while SI Tutul has also composed a couple of songs for Black.

Black is produced by Vibgyor Films, which also owns the global distribution right of this film.

Commenting on this film, director Shoaib Choudhury said, “it is truly a huge hurdle undertaking such art film during the current crisis period in Bangladeshi film industry. But a number of international organizations have shown willingness is coming forward in making of Black.”