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My Bicycle

2015 Bangladeshi film

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The Bangladesh Film Censor Board blocked the commercial release of the film. There were no professional actors involved in the production.

On August 8, 2024, an independent film activist group organized an open screening called #CinemaDehuntis, as part of a reformist movement urging the government to abolish censorship. This initiative is a sub-movement woven into the broader July Revolution in Bangladesh against the Awami government.

Plot

An indigenous man named Komol is fired from a job in a town and returns to his hillside native village with only a bicycle. Although his son is happy to have his father back, he has nothing to give his family except the bicycle. Komol decides to not return to the town for new jobs but tries to secure their livelihood through the cycle. He offers to ferry passengers and goods of villagers from place to place on his cycle and earn. Unfortunately, one day an accident occurs, injuring an old man. Village goons threaten Komol and declare that no one can ride on that cycle. When Komol refuses to give them extortion, they destroy his bicycle.

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