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.