According to IMDb, an online database of information related to films and television series, the purpose of the film is to establish that terrorists use religion to divide and kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslim, fight their own Let’s try to protect humanist values. The film highlights the conflicts and contradictions of religion, ideology and civilization through a terror drama shot in a single take.
Well-known Bangladeshi and Indian actors – Zahid Hasan, Nusrat Imroz Tisha, Eresh Zakar and Parambrata Chattopadhyay – were featured in the film along with renowned Palestinian actor Iyad Hourani.
The film has received several accolades from critics domestically and abroad for its production quality.
In 2019, the Censor Board rejected Farooqi’s application to release the film after receiving an objection from a board member representing the Ministry of Home Affairs of Bangladesh.
It had said at the time that the film could harm the country’s image as it was based on a “sensitive issue”.
Farooqi has always maintained that his film was not a depiction of the horrific events that took place in July 2016, but described the film’s script as “inspired by those events”.
Recently, Indian film officials announced the release date of ‘Faraz’, a film directed by Hansal Mehta, which is based on the same militant attack.