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Beyond the Circle

2009 · 87 min

A quiet, thoughtful fable that drifts between village and city, asking you to sit with its gentle melancholy and social observation.

Directed by
Golam Rabbany Biplob
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jayanto Chattopadhyay, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Firoj Khan Dollar
Overview
A political fable in which a village musician gets swept up in the market economy of big city Dhaka.

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Directed by
Golam Rabbany Biplob
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jayanto Chattopadhyay, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Firoj Khan Dollar
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • power
  • identity
  • work
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Golam Rabbany Biplob
Written by
Golam Rabbany Biplob
Starring
Jayanto Chattopadhyay, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Firoj Khan Dollar, Konkon, Shahidul Alam Sachchu, Rasheda Rawnak Khan, Azharul Islam Khan, Habib Ahsan
Music
Bappa Mazumder
Cinematography
Mahfuzur Rahman Khan
Runtime
87 min
Country
Bangladesh
Languages
Bengali

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