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A film poster advertising Bangladeshi film Most Welcome 2 hangs in front of a cinema hall at a shopping mall in Dhaka.
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Authorities in Bangladesh have banned local filmmakers from giving their movies English titles after a spate of recent Bangla blockbusters with titles such as Honeymoon and I Don’t Care.
Mushfiqur Rahman Gulzar, general secretary of the Bangladesh Film Directors’ Association, said the government had instructed the industry to ensure that all future homegrown releases have Bangla names.
“Immediately after we received the information ministry order, we duly informed all the directors that they could not use English titles. We’ve also pasted the order in our notice board,” he said yesterday.
Gulzar said that up to 90% of the new movies which are registered with his association each month have English names, calling the phenomenon an “epidemic.”
“A new myth has been created that films with English titles do good business here,” he added.
The four biggest Bangla box office hits released during the recent Eid al-Fitr holiday period had English names - The Hero-The Superstar, Honeymoon, Welcome 2 and I Don’t Care.
Local film critic Awlad Hossain said directors prefer to give their movies English titles “just to create some buzz.”
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