Sincerely Yours, Dhaka


Sincerely Yours, Dhaka is a 2018 Impress Telefilm drama film produced as Bangladesh's first anthology film directed by eleven individual directors. The project was developed by Bangladeshi filmmaker Abu Shahed Emon. It is a collection of gritty shorts centered on the capital city of Bangladesh, Dhaka, and the people living in its margins. It was awarded "Best Original Screenplay" at the 11th edition of the Jaipur International Film Festival, held in India in January 2019. It is one of the first two films to enter Netflix originating from Bangladesh. It was selected as the Bangladeshi entry for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. It was also screened at 51st International Film Festival of India in January 2021 in Country in focus section.

Plot

In this omnibus, 11 Bangladeshi filmmakers created a love letter to the city of Dhaka representing their point of view of the lifestyle of the residents and the frequent happenings in the city.
1. The Background Artist : The story is about a movie side character who are called extras.
2. Cheers : This story is based on psychological resentment of a girl after a breakup in love.
3. Jibon's Gun : A story about a teenaged gangster in Dhaka.
4. Magfirat : The story is about a car driver whose mentality get dramatically changed while working in Dhaka.
5. Sounds Good : The whole movie set has been highlighted in the eyes of the movie soundman.
6. Obisshashe Dhaka : It is portrayed that going to help someone in Dhaka can turn into a danger to oneself.
7. Where, Nowhere :
The director has confusingly told 3 tragic stories of a middle-class family in Dhaka in which you can only understand 1 and a half of the stories.
8. Dhaka Metro : The story is about a second hand car dealer whose wife is ill but the car that would be sold for her surgery gets stolen.
9. M for Money / Murder : A story of the tragic fate of 2 corrupt industrialists.
10. Jinnah is Dead : The story is about the conflict between a Bihari mether and a Bengali resident in Bihari Camp, Mohammadpur, Dhaka.
11. Juthi : It is a story about the complex psychology between men and women.

Cast