Film

Shey: The Conversation

1993 · 10m · Drama

IMDb

7.2

A man and a woman meet after a long unexplained separation. Gradually over the course of a strained and oblique conversation, the nature of their shared past is revealed. This film grew out of a casual conversation between feminist writer and filmmaker Shameem Akhter and Masud. When Shameem mentioned the plot of a feminist short story she had written, Masud immediately suggested it be made into a short film. Shameem herself plays the female role, while noted actor Pijush Bandhapadhyay plays the mysterious male visitor who turns up at her door. The theme of an independent working woman, supporting a family household, was new to Bangladesh cinema in the early 1990s. This reflected the changing face of a rapidly urbanizing society with a growing population of educated wage- earning women, and in some ways paralleled the developments of Satyajit Ray’s 1963 classic Mahanagar. In this sense Se was a pioneering work for Bangladesh in expressing the new feminist ethos of the 1990s generation.

Shameem Akhtar

The Woman

Pijush Bandyopadhyay

The Man

• Shameem AkhtarDirector · Writer · Story
• Tareque MasudDirector

Release date

January 1, 1993

Status

Released

Original language

Bangla

Runtime

10m

Genres

Drama