Chanchal Chowdhury, the lead actor of Hawa Wind, is soaking in overwhelming audience response to the movie in the ongoing Bangladesh Film Festival here, but he regrets that it could not be commercially released in Kolkata.Hawa, directed by Mejbaur Rahman Sumon, tells the story of a group of fishermen in the mid seas, who found a beautiful young woman in their net.The film, shown free of cost, had a full house during its two screenings at Nandan, a state government-owned cinema, on the inaugural day of the 4th Bangladesh Film Festival on Saturday.
There was a period when Bangladeshi cinema seemed hopeless, both as an art form and as an industry but in recent times, the Bangladeshi film industry is experiencing a new wave as most of the films that are being released are doing well at the box office commercially. Let us look at the films that did commercially well in the theatres from 2010 to 2022.