Genre: Narrative Feature Drama
Duration: 88 min
Languages: Bengali
Year: 2015
Released in: Bangladesh
Writer, Director: Rubaiyat Hossain
DOP: Martina Radwan
Music: Shayan Chowdhury Arnob
Editing, Sound: Sujan Mahmud
Producer: Rubaiyat Hossain
Co-producer: Nasir Kashem, Ashique Mostafa
Executive Producer: Ishtiaque Zico
Under Construction is about a middle class Muslim woman struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh. Theatre actress Roya suffers from her husband’s wish for children and traditional life. Not interested in motherhood, she decides to reconstruct a famous and politically minded play for modern times, reclaiming her identity, her freedom and her sexuality in the process.
Roya, a modern middle-class Muslim woman struggles to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh. After being replaced by a younger actor for the character of ‘Nandini’—the epitome of Bengali womanhood, the central character of Rabindranath Tagore’s political play ‘Red Oleanders;’ she delves into a psychological journey and battles to reconstruct ‘Nandini,’ reclaiming her identity and sexuality in the process. As she sets the play in a modern day ready-made garment factories in Dhaka; her journey to establish her individuality as a middle class woman is juxtaposed with the journey of her teenage housemaid Moyna, who later joins the industrial workforce.
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