Showing posts with label BANGLADESH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BANGLADESH. Show all posts

EVERY GOOD MARRIAGE BEGINS WITH TEARS


Bengali girls are not allowed to fall in love. Their love lives are looked after by relatives who match them up with a man from back in Bangladesh. Some say it's a cultural practice but, more often than not, arranged marriages are made in exchange for UK citizenship. Bengali girls who refuse to do what they're told face being banished from their family home and blacklisted by their community - all because they don't want to spend the rest of their lives bowing down to some random dude they've never met before.

"Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears" is a documentary about Bengali girls from East London who rebel against the tradition of arranged marriage. Intimately shot and exquisitely put together, it's the best thing I've seen in ages.



You can watch the film on BBC iPlayer (inside the UK) or you can see it in full here.


BANGLA SEXY TIME

No kissing scenes are shown in cinemas in Bangladesh, it being a strict Muslim country. Even illegal underground "blue" movies shy away from anything sexually explicit, prefering instead to convey the emotion through fiercely erotic choreography, usually featuring a couple so insanely horny that they're humping everything in sight - plants, poles, the floor... This one features a muscular bloke with rapey eyes and a local hottie called Poly.