This 137-minute drama film depicting Bangladesh’s 2013 Rana Plaza disaster was scheduled to be premiered on September 4 at more than 100 cinemas across Bangladesh following last month’s clearance from the Bangladesh Film Censor Board, but now it has been banned by the High Court as Justices ruled the film would negatively portray the nation’s US $ 25 billion garment industry. A petition in this regard was submitted by the Bangladesh National Garment Workers Employees League.
Director of the movie Nazrul Islam Khan, confused by the court ruling, says that The Rana Plaza is also about Reshma’s love story, which tries to raise awareness about the life of the country’s millions of woman garment workers. The ruling gave the Film Censor Board four weeks to justify its decision to try to give the film a certificate. But the court did not explain why the ban would only apply for six months, or in what circumstances it might be revisited after that period.
