Short film to raise awareness about rape and rapists

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Bangla Tribune Report
Published : 16:43, Jul 17, 2018 | Updated : 16:43, Jul 17, 2018

Directed by Ashiqur Rahman, the short film is in response to a Facebook campaign called ‘Stand for women’ to protest their abuse.The 2012 bus rape in Delhi triggered a global outrage and brought into the forefront, rampant sexual harassment of women in public.

In 2017, replicating the Indian crime, a girl called, Zakia Sultana Rupa, was violated in a bus in Bangladesh and then killed.
Attempts to rape women in moving vehicles were made later on and to highlight the danger for young women commuters, a short film called Oshombhabito, has been made.
Moushumi Hamid plays the woman who faces a predicament in a moving bus with Shotabdi Wadud as the driver and Iktarul islam as the helper.

Directed by Ashiqur Rahman, the short film is in response to a Facebook campaign called ‘Stand for women’ to protest their abuse.
In the film, Moushumi, the lone passenger in the bus, is targeted for rape but since she has a pistol, the rapists face a challenge.

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