The Beauty Worker
Friday 19 September 2008 by allezaucinema
Documentary | Produced in: 2004, directed by Syeda Neegar Banu
Synopsis: Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh is getting the face of a cosmopolitan city day by day. Near about one million people live here coming from different corners of the country. Dhaka also hosts different kinds of business and livelihood for its habitants. Beauty parlor is one of the promising businesses these days in the city. The characters in this documentary are a group of parlor workers; we call them `Adivasi’ (ethnic). They express their story of survival. The film basically focuses on their struggle in a cosmopolitan city- how do they make living as beauty workers, how do they cope urban life leaving behind their own culture, their dreams and so on...