Doob: No Bed of Roses 2017 Bangla Movie

Doob: No Bed Of Roses is a 2017 India-Bangladesh co-production drama film written and directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. It was produced by Himanshu Dhanuka, Abdul Aziz and Irrfan Khan under the banner of Eskay Movies and Jaaz Multimedia along with Irrfan Khan Films.It stars Irrfan Khan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Rokeya Prachy and Parno Mittra. The story builds up around the members of two families discovering the finer fabric of love when the headman of a family dies. The theme of the film is that death doesn't always take things away, sometimes it gives back.

Casting

Bollywood Actor Irrfan Khan was roped in to play the lead role in the film opposite Nusrat Imrose Tisha. Rokeya Prachy and Parno Mittra later joined the film in a supporting role. The film marks Khan's 10th international film.

Filming

Principal photography on the film began on March 2016 in Dhaka. Filming locations include Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sylhet, and Dhaka. On March 17, 2016, Irrfan Khan arrived in Dhaka, Bangladesh to scout for filming locations of the upcoming film. Internationally acclaimed director Farooki describes the film as a family story of loss and regain.[8] Regarding the film Khan said, "When I saw his first film 'Ant Story', it immediately got me interested. I was impressed with his approach, style, and the way he unravels the story ... His works carry a strong humane angle, which is why his characters are multi layered.

Release

Tisha No bed of roses

The film had its world premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival on June 25, 2017.After months of waiting for clearance to release the film, the film was finally announced to be releasing on 27 October 2017 in both Bangladesh and India.Talks are on with distributors of respective countries whether the film can be released in Australia and Singapore also on October 27.

Film Festivals

This movie has been also selected to compete at the main competition round of the Shanghai International Film Festival 2017, which will commence from June 17, 2017.

Doob: No Bed of Roses has been selected for the main competition section of the 39th Moscow International Film Festival , one of the oldest and prestigious film festivals in the world. The news was announced at the first official press conference of the festival held on June 1 at the StandArt Hotel in Moscow.And the film wins the Kommersant Weekend Prize in the festival.

Film Bazaar 2013 - Winner - Dubai Film Market Award

Shanghai International Film Festival, June 2017 - Competition

Moscow International Film Festival, June 2017 - Winner - Kommersant Jury Prize

In Competition, El Gouna Film Festival, September 2017.

Official Selection, Vancouver International Film Festival, September 2017.

Official Selection, Busan International Film festival, October 2017

Closing Film, South Asian Film Festival, Paris, October 2017.

In Competition, Asia Pacific Screen Awards, November 2017.

Reviews

“ Thoroughly modern and unlike Farooki's previous work, this is a sobering, engrossing separation drama... It takes an actor of Irrfan Khan's stature and magnetism to turn an intimate separation drama into something special, and a writer-director like Bangladesh's happy maverick Mostofa Sarwar Farooki to layer on subtleties and shades of meaning with realistic detachment that never slips into melodrama... Its visual style and pacing make as much of an impression as the head-shaking story.”

Deborah Young, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Directed with an assured and graceful touch that evokes the elegiac tone of a requiem, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki proves he’s a singular voice in Bangladeshi cinema. With Irrfan Khan delivering another sublime lead performance (while being billed as co-producer), the film should bloom at festivals and secure a limited release in India, despite some censorship issues back home…..Other actors in the mixed cast of Bangladeshis and Indians are equally absorbing, especially Tisha.”

Maggie Lee, Chief Asia Film Critic, Variety

“The latest work from Mostofa Sawar Farooki No Bed Of Roses (Doob) is an intimate family drama which eschews the usual melodramatic trappings of such fare to explore the quietly devastating impact of a husband’s infidelity on those closest to him... Boasting an excellent central performance from acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan... Khan is characteristically magnetic and surprisingly empathetic... While the story is salacious, Farooki’s nuanced screenplay avoids cliche — sex scenes are notably absent — to instead focus on the very real pain of the situation... Alongside Khan, who will be familiar to Western audiences, the cast is universally strong... the evolving relationship between mother and daughter in the wake of Javed’s seismic betrayal provides the emotional heart of the narrative, along with Saberi’s feelings towards her father, and it’s refreshing to see this age-old story told from the equal perspective of the women involved. Farooki handles the piece with grace and sensitivity; an approach augmented by Pavel Arin’s evocative score, which mixes the traditional and the contemporary, and debut cinematographer Sheikh Rajibul Islam’s arresting, contemplative visuals.

Nikki Baughan, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

Controversy

On February 16, 2017, the Ministry of Information halted the film's "no-objection" certificate.Earlier, writer Humayun Ahmed's wife Meher Afroz Shaon had brought to the government's notice that a part of the film resembles a period of her deceased husband's life.