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Banglatown Banquet (2006)

Banglatown Banquet poster
Directed by
Hettie MacDonald
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged Bangladeshi woman in Britain has her life disrupted when her husband comes back from Bangladesh with a pregnant teenage bride. The film follows her struggle with this sudden change in her household.

tenseemotionaldomesticunsettlingslow-burnintimatemelancholicfamily-drama

What happens

Banglatown Banquet is a 2006 British television drama film directed by Hettie MacDonald, written by Tanika Gupta, and stars Shabana Azmi, Shobu Kapoor and Shelly King. The film is about a middle-aged Bangladeshi woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband returns from Bangladesh with a pregnant teenage bride. It was broadcast by BBC Two on 25 March 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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