Irrfan Khan’s ‘Doob’ chosen as Bangladesh’s official entry for Oscars

Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan starrer ‘Doob – No Bed of Roses has been chosen as Bangladesh’s official entry for the Academy Awards 2019. The film was chosen the country’s official entry by the Bangladesh Oscar Committee for the Best Foreign Language film category, as reported by variety.com.

Not many know that the movie was once banned in Bangladesh on the grounds that it might be based on the life of the revered filmmaker Ahmed, who had divorced his wife of 27 years and married an actress 33 years his junior. But later, the ban was lifted and the movie was released in Bangladesh, France, India and Australia in October 2017.

‘Doob’ stars Irrfan, who is a producer and a successful filmmaker facing a midlife crisis. His tryst with his daughter’s childhood friend causes a national scandal. The India-Bangladesh co-production that is written and directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, features Rokeya Prachi as Irrfan’s wife, while Nusrat Imrose Tisha plays the daughter and Indian actress Parno Mittra plays her childhood friend.

In a statement about the film, Farooki had said he took inspiration from a real-life incident “which shook the very foundation of Bangladesh’s judgmental Muslim society” and “how women struggle in our society and find strength in despair”.

Watch the trailer of ‘Doob’ here:

Irrfan Khan’s 2008 film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ had gone on to win 7 Oscars. So will luck favour ‘Doob’? We do hope so. For though Bangladesh has been sending entries for the foreign-language category since 2002, it has not won any award till date. The 91st Academy Awards will be held on February 24, 2019.

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