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Dressing Table

{{short description|2015 film by Abu Sayeed}}

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Dressing Table ({{langx|bn|ড্রেসিং টেবিল}}) is a 2016 Bangladeshi drama film written and directed by Abu Sayeed. The film stars Tarin Rahman and Azad Abul Kalam in the lead roles.

Plot

Shila and Rahul have been married recently. Being a lower-middle-class family, they could not get all the things needed to furnish a house. There is no dressing table in the house. One day Rahul brings home a dressing table, albeit an old one. Shila is still happy to have it. The next day, while cleaning the dressing table, she finds an old diary. Shila initially hesitates to read the diary as it belongs to someone else, but one night she gives in to her curiosity. After finding the first 2/3 pages interesting, she ends up reading the whole diary by the end of the night. After finishing the diary, Shila walks towards the dressing table. She looks at the mirror and discovers herself. Then starts a new chapter in her life.{{cite news |title=Shooting of Abu Sayeed's 'Dressing Table' underway |url=http://www.theindependentbd.com/printversion/details/9677 |date=31 July 2015 |newspaper=The Independent |location=Dhaka}}

Cast

  • Tarin Rahman as Shila{{cite news |title=Tarin Rahman busy with film, ad, TV play |url=http://thedailynewnation.com/news/63100/tarin-rahman-busy-with-film-ad-tv-play.html |work=The New Nation |date=13 August 2015}}
  • Azad Abul Kalam as Rahul
  • Taskin Sumi
  • Arman Parvez Murad
  • Nadia Nodi
  • Iffat Trisha
  • Tania Rahman
  • Ataur Rahman
  • KS Firoz
  • Khalilur Rahman Qaderi

Production and release

Filming began on 24 July 2015, took place in Dhaka and Purbali, and lasted 10 days.{{cite news |script-title=bn:আবু সাইয়ীদের 'ড্রেসিং টেবিল' |trans-title=Abu Sayyed's 'Dressing Table' |url=https://samakal.com/todays-print-edition/tp-others/article/1508152760/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%81-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82-%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2 |work=Samakal |date=2 August 2015}} The film was submitted to the Bangladesh Film Censor Board on 4 August 2016,{{cite news |last=Bhattacharya |first=Pallab |date=4 August 2016 |title=Abu Sayeed's Dressing Table |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/film/abu-sayeeds-dressing-table-1264276 |work=The Daily Star}} and cleared on 22 August.{{cite news |last=Bhattacharya |first=Pallab |date=25 August 2016 |title=Abu Sayeed's 'Dressing Table' premieres |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/film/abu-sayeeds-%E2%80%9Cdressing-table%E2%80%9D-premieres-1274863 |work=The Daily Star}}

Dressing Table received its world première at the 40th Montreal World Film Festival on 26 August 2016.

Response

Film critic Swapan Mullick of The Statesman wrote, "The simplicity is quite deceptive and the acting far removed from the dramatic compulsions of popular cinema."{{cite news |last=Mullick |first=Swapan |date=7 July 2018 |title=From Dhaka, with a flow of new ideas |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/supplements/marquee/dhaka-flow-new-ideas-1502658162.html |work=The Statesman}}

References

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Category:2016 films

Category:Bengali-language Bangladeshi films

Category:Films directed by Abu Sayeed (film director)

Category:2010s Bengali-language films

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