Oggatonama (2016)

Original title

অজ্ঞাতনামা

Directed by

Tauquir Ahmed

Genre

drama film

Country

Bangladesh

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Bangladeshi migrant dies after entering the United Arab Emirates with a fake passport. The police in Bangladesh receive the wrong corpse, setting off a chain of events that affect the families involved.

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What happens

Oggatonama (Bengali: অজ্ঞাতনামা lit. 'The Unnamed') is a 2016 Bangladeshi drama film directed and written by Tauquir Ahmed. It was selected as the Bangladeshi entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film stars Fazlur Rahman Babu, Shahiduzzaman Selim, Mosharraf Karim, Nipun Akter, Shatabdi Wadud, and several others. Oggatonama was released on 19 August 2016 in Bangladesh by Impress Telefilm. It is about a Bangladeshi migrant who dies after illegally entering the United Arab Emirates with a fake passport. The Bangladesh police receive the wrong corpse. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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