Made in Bangladesh

[Opens Sept. 4 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] After a tenacious, smart, overworked, poor, 23-year-old Indian employee (Rikita Nandini Shimue), who has an unemployed husband (Mostafa Monwar), survives a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and then is approached by a union advocate (Shahana Goswami) who informs her about workers' rights, labor laws, human rights, and the value of unions in Rubaiyat Hossain's powerful, engaging, well-acted, realistic, colorful, 94-minute, 2019 film reminiscent of Norma Rae, she decides to rally her exploited, underpaid, abused, sari-clad coworkers (Novera Rahman, Deepanwita Martin, et al.) in an attempt to organize a union despite threats by hypocritical, abusive managers (Azaz Bari and Shatabdi Wadud).
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