Rickshaw Girl

[Plays virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] When her rickshaw driver father (Naresh Bhuiyan) becomes seriously ill in Amitabh Reza Chowdhury's compelling, colorful, award-winning, touching, heartbreaking, 101-minute, 2021 film adapted from Mitali Perkins' 2007 novel, a talented, ambitious, teenage wannabe-artist (Novera Rahman) in Blangladesh leaves her mother (Momena Chowdhury) for the big city in an attempt to earn money to buy medicine for her father with the help of a bus driver (Allen Shubhro), takes a series of odd jobs, disguises herself as a man to pull a rickshaw, and when she meets an influential woman (Gulshan Champa) who recognizes her talent, she begins to fulfill her dream as a painter after learning of a family tragedy.
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