Zahid Hossain Shovon

Refugees from East Pakistan flee West Pakistani soldiers aboard a rickety steamboat.

OC Alamgir rescued that baby who was found in a dustbin and restore him to a hospital. The baby without identity drew a huge attentation in social media. Thousands childless family applied to adopt the child. OC Alamgir is given the charge to investigate the selected couples. At the time of investigation OC Alamgir suffers from mental agony as his own child died met a very premature death. At that time there came the original mother of the nameless child. Why this child was thrown away? What would be the consequence of this child?

Dahan loosely based on a true incident of metro city Dhaka. The film received positive reviews from critics and also it was a commercial success.

It is a film about a left wing leader, who like a Greek tragic character, fought against his destiny all along his life. While portraying the man’s struggles the film deals with the anti-British Swadeshi movement, the 1947 Partition of India, Tebhaga movement of the Bengal peasants, creation of Pakistan, killing of the political prisoners inside jail in Rajshahi and finally the liberation war of Bangladesh against Pakistan in 1971. The film also reveals the love and sacrifices of this star-crossed man.