
Artist Upol wrote and performed this caustic song referencing Momtaj's famous Bangla song "Pola to Noy Aguner Gola." I offered to direct the music video in 2009 and he assured me complete freedom; his only request was to "make it a piece of art." I ran with Upol's idea of a fashion show at an underground brothel. The tawdry trash-glam style and hopelessness of the girls were fitting metaphors for the song's message about the disenchantment of the youth.
This may be the first Bengali music video filmed on the original Red One digital cinema camera which was released less than two years before. It rained to our surprise on the second day of the shoot, which we embraced in the video. I edited this music video in only two days on my four-year-old Macbook Pro.
Even after covering up the girls during the shoot, reducing the risque elements, and editing it conservatively, this music video was banned from broadcast in Bangladesh and never got a TV release.




