Roid
Each time Shadhu tries to leave his wife behind, a fruit drops from the palm tree, and she finds her way back. Mejbaur Rahman Sumon’s Roid is part folk tale, fable, and something harder to name.
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Friday, May 15, 2026
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Saturday, May 16, 2026
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In a remote corner of rural Bangladesh, a poor tenant farmer named Shadhu (Mostafizur Noor Imran) lives with his wife, a woman the village considers mad. Impulsive, untamable, and fiercely herself, she is known only as Sadhur Bou, her husband's wife. Shadhu, kind-hearted but overwhelmed, begins secretly taking her far from home, abandoning her in unfamiliar places. Each time, a fruit falls from the palmyra palm beside their shelter. She returns. The film draws its rhythms from the landscapes of rural Bangladesh, and director Mejbaur Rahman Sumon, whose earlier film Hawa was Bangladesh's Academy Award® submission, brings a painter's care to every frame. Cinematographer Joaher Musavvir Jyoti renders the monsoon countryside with a sensory richness, water, sky, earth, and silence, which makes the natural world feel as present as the characters. The editing and music work in close step, building a mood that is both grounded and quietly mythic. At its center is Sadhur Bou, unruly and unpredictable, a presence that stays with you.
—Shailaja Rao
- Director: Mejbaur Rahman Sumon
- Principal Cast: Mostafizur Noor Imran, Nazifa Tushi
- Country: Bangladesh
- Year: 2026
- Running Time: 109 min.
- Producer: Shimul Chandra Biswas, Tanveer Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahman, Mejbaur Rahman Sumon, Tanveer Ahmed Shovon
- Screenplay: Mejbaur Rahman Sumon, Siddiq Ahamed, Sukorno Shahed Dhiman, Jaheen Faruque Amin
- Cinematographers: Joaher Musavvir Jyoti
- Editors: Sazal Alok
- Music: Rasheed Sharif Shoaib
- Filmography: Hawa (2022)
- Language: Bengali
- Has Subtitles: Yes
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