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Pett Kata Shaw takes the darkest most nefarious Bengali folk tales that survived generations and gives them a modern twist. Our stories and our culture must live on. Ghost stories too.
The stories of 'Procholito' are often heard while walking, sometimes read, and deeply embedded in the minds since childhood. 'Procholito' reflects the art of enveloping these ideas in the contemporary cloak, creating a timeless allure.
With her father missing, Saba is the sole caregiver to her paraplegic mother, Shirin, who suffers from acute heart disease. Although Shirin's condition binds them together, her frustration with their situation often manifests as bitterness and anger towards her daughter, so they live in their own separate worlds. When Shirin has a heart attack, Saba races against time to sell their home, lowering the price, and even risking her burgeoning romance with her senior co-worker Ankur — who dreams of starting a new life abroad — to pay for her mom’s heart surgery.
Desperate to flee the country, Monsur has to quickly learn Turkish. This takes him into a language center with a weird trainer. Monsur’s sole classmate Suraiya maintains an uncomfortable distance. A practice of the newly taught vocabulary brings them closer. Suraiya is desperate to get into Turkey following the trails of her lover. Wading through the labyrinth of grammar, Monsur grows an obsessed attraction for Suraiya. The trainer disappears midway and they discover that the half-taught language is not Turkish.
Within a hidden interfaith marriage in Dhaka, an unexpected pregnancy exposes the invisible structures of control shaping a woman's life, forcing her to confront the fragile boundaries between love, silence, and selfhood.
‘Dui Shaw’ is the modern revival of the mysterious and lurid plots of traditional South Asian folk tales told from generation to generation. A sequel series to ‘Pett Kata Shaw’, Dui Shaw delves into the horrors of the present instead of the folktales of old.
