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Dhaka Metro (2019)

Dhaka Metro poster
Genre
drama
Country
India
Length
1 season, 9 episodes
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Bangladeshi series set in contemporary Dhaka, following characters whose lives are touched by elements of magical realism. The story was originally envisioned as a film and later expanded into nine episodes.

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What happens

Dhaka Metro (Bengali: ঢাকা মেট্রো গ ১৭৯১০৬) is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language television series written by Amitabh Reza Chowdhury and Aditya Kabir and directed by Amitabh Reza Chowdhury, started streaming on the Bengali OTT platform Hoichoi from 11 April 2019. The plot written by Aditya Kabir overnight in 2007. After that, Amitabh Reza Chowdhury tried to make a movie from it for 7 years. Unable to find a producer, he finally decided to make nine-episode series, Hoichoi was introduced. Chowdhury says he based the characters on contemporary Bangladesh, but the episodes follow magical realism. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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