Overview
Guerrilla is a 2011 Bangladeshi film based on the events of the Bangladesh Liberation War. It is an adaptation of the novel Nishiddho Loban by Syed Shamsul Huq and was released on 14 April 2011. It has been envisioned by the director of the film Nasiruddin Yousuf Bachchu. He has crafted the film Guerrilla with his own experience as a freedom fighter of 1971.
Plot
On 25 March 1971, Operation Searchlight was launched on Bangladesh by the Pakistan Army. On that night, Hasan Ahmed, a veteran journalist and husband of Bilkis (Joya Ahsan), vanishes while on his way to his newspaper office. Bilkis starts a desperate search for her husband and also volunteers for guerrilla operations against the army. With the guerrilla fighters operating in Dhaka, she started participating directly in operations. At one point, her comrade freedom fighters were captured. Bilkis leaves for, Joleswari, a remote village at Rangpur. The metallic train transforms into a character, a symbolic one, a moving replica designed to depict a catastrophic journey.
Cast
Jaya Ahsan as Bilkish Banu
Ferdous Ahmed as Hasan Ahmed
Pijush Bandyopaddhay as Anwar Hossain
Ahmed Rubel as Altaf Mahmud
Masum Aziz
Shatabdi Wadud as Captain Shamsad / Major Sarfaraj
Shampa Reza as Mrs. Khan
ATM Shamsuzzaman as Taslim Sardar
Azad Abul Kalam as Tyeb
Shajjad Ahmed as Siraj
Bidushi Bornita as Shawon
Kachi Khandakar
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