Amitabh Reza Chowdhury's film titled ‘Rickshaw Girl’ is being screened in the US for four weeks after having its premiere in New York at Manhattan's famous movie theater 'Village of East by Angelika' on May 5.
After the first showing of the film in the city's famous movie theatre ‘Rickshaw Girl’ is now scheduled to have a couple of screenings in June.
The director of the film Amitabh Reza Chowdhury told UNB that the screenings will be held on June 4 and 5 at 5pm in Arizona, California and Denver.
The multiple award-winning Bangladeshi English film ‘Rickshaw Girl’ is now being screened in 52 cities in 18 states of the US, which includes New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Texas, Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, Ohio, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arizona, Oregon, North Carolina, Illinois, Michigan, Washington, and California.
Hosted in the US by Bioscope Films, Rickshaw Girl is based on the Indian-American author Mitali Perkins' book of the same title.
The protagonist of the movie is a teenager, Naima, who eventually takes pulling a rickshaw as a profession. Novera Rahman has played the character.
The film also features stars like Champa, Momena Chowdhury, Naresh Bhuiyan, Allen Shubro, and others. The screenplay was co-written by Naseef Faruque Amin and Sharbari Zohra Ahmed. The screenplay was co-written by Naseef Faruque Amin and Sharbari Zohra Ahmed.
A joint production of Bangladesh and the US, the film has received several awards in various countries around the world, including the Prescott Film Festival in the US and the Schlingel International Film Festival in Germany.
