
Shobder Khowab
Synopsis
First episode of the anthology series 'Jaago Bahey' set during the 1952 Bhasa Andolan (Language Movement) in Bangladesh, then East Pakistan. A story about an office and its employee's daily office life, where the ordinary becomes unbearable due to the imposed restrictions of the regime.
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