My editor and I decided that today we will work on our short film edit
and complete it before we take off anywhere to watch films. So we sat
the whole day on the edit and made quite some great progress.
During lunch we ordered naan, fried rice, chicken curry, prawn curry
and also chilli chicken in chinese style. While the curries and chilli
chicken came in very little quantities, the naan came as sliced pieces
that amounted to a mountain on the plate. It looked intimidating, to
say the least. But the food tasted awesome. It was my first proper
meal in Bangladesh and I must say I wasn't disappointed at all!
Later in the evening we attended a party thrown at the Dhaka Club.
The party was super fascinating and a first of its kind experience for
me. We met some of the biggest shots in Bangladesh including their
central minister for media, the guys who run their TV networks, their
superstars of acting, leading directors including one who has worked
with Polanski, one who is being touted as the next best thing in
Bangladeshi cinema and whose film has has been banned on controversial
political grounds, etc., and several such who's who of Bangladesh.
Needless to say, it all felt surreal. At many points in time when I
was there, I couldn't believe that I was actually hobnobbing with the
biggest shots of a country and that too because of a movie I made. And
of course, it was indeed beautiful.
213 more to go.
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