Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's upcoming big screen project, “Saturday Afternoon”, has completed its shoot schedule, the director revealed in a Facebook post on Sunday.
Terming the film “a dream” he saw “many months ago”, and thanked all the people who believed in it –cast, crew and producers from 12 countries including award-winning Kazakh cinematographer Aziz Zhambakiyev, Anna Katchko (from Germany's Tandem Productions who will produce the film).
The film, which has been shrouded in secrecy, casts Palestinian actor Eyad Hourani, Indian actor Parambrata Chattopadhyay, and Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Zahid Hasan, Iresh Zaker, Mamunur Rashid, Nader Chowdhury, Intekhab Dinar, Gousul Alam Shaon and others from Bangladesh.
The film, reportedly a 'political suspense thriller' (according to The Daily Prothom Alo), has completed principal photography in 17 days. When asked, Farooki told The Daily Star “the principal photography required very special preparation and execution,” without divulging further details.
The director also revealed in a later Facebook post that established TV and film directors Redoan Rony and Adnan Al Rajeev – Farooki's accomplices from the creative collective Chabial – are the assistant directors of the film.
Farooki had earlier told The Daily Star that the film “will feature characters from a number of nationalities, and is a thriller where the lives of several people collide.”
“Saturday Afternoon” will set off Farooki's “Identity” trilogy. The second film in line will be “No Land's Man”, and the third will be on the Myanmarese Rohingya ethnic group.
Farooki's last film, “Doob” (“No Bed of Roses”) did successful rounds at the international film festival circuit, but was met with mixed – albeit largely positive – responses at home after its release last October.
