Saturday Afternoon (2019)

★ 4.0 1h 23m IMDb
Drama Thriller

An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to defend their own humanistic values. The film unravels the clashes and contradictions of religion, ideology, and civilizations through a terror drama shot in a single take.

Saturday Afternoon

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Cast

Zahid Hasan
Zahid Hasan as Shahidul
Nusrat Imrose Tisha
Nusrat Imrose Tisha as Raisa Age 42
Mamunur Rashid
Mamunur Rashid as Mozammel Haque Age 78 · Tangail,Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid is one of the pioneering theatre activists in Bangladesh. He is the chief secretary of leading theatre group Aranyak which plays crucial roles in creating common people aware about thei...
Iresh Zaker
Iresh Zaker as Ibtesham Age 49 · Dhaka, Bangladesh Iresh Zaker is a Bangladeshi advertising executive and television and film actor. He is the managing director of Asiatic 360, a marketing and advertising company, owned and operated by his parents, ac...
Intekhab Dinar
Intekhab Dinar as Chisti Intekhab Dinar is a popular Bangladeshi actor known for starring in the Ekushey Television tv series Bondhone and Chorki series Unoloukik..
Nader Chowdhury
Nader Chowdhury as Nader Chowdhury
Director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Cast Zahid Hasan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Mamunur Rashid, Iresh Zaker, Intekhab Dinar, Nader Chowdhury, Gousul Alam Shaon, Parambrata Chatterjee, Eyad Hourani, Selina Black

Audience Reviews

SWITCH. 6/10 Jun 07, 2019
While the hostage takers' motivations are in the right place - standing up against persecution and preserving their culture - it's clear that the film is strongly opposed to their methods. 'Saturday Afternoon' is a shocking and abrasive assessment of terrorism, and will be especially confronting to Western audiences. As the finale fades to black, we'll never know the real outcome - only that many lives were unnecessarily lost.
- Charlie David Page

Read Charlie's full article...
https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-saturday-afternoon-a-shocking-and-abrasive-assessment-of-terrorism

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