The film ‘Haribol’ portrays the plight of marginal minorities of Bangladesh, through the story of a family from the minority community getting persecuted by the village Panchayat and evicted from their homeland, and eventually forced to feel the country. The head of the family Nitai living a life of ‘bairagya’ (nonchalance or abstinence from material ambitions) fails to resist the eviction of his family. Haribol elucidates on the helplessness of minorities and the way they succumb to the persecution they are facing. The narrative unfolds through the point of view of a young filmmaker. He is the story-teller who embarks on making a biopic film based on a war heroine. He discovers the family of Nitai while researching on the war heroine named Suparna Basu at Baleswar region. Although he faces difficulty in finishing the script for not being able to find current location of his subject of interest, Suparna, he finds a parallel narrative in the conditions being faced by Nitai’s family...
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