Dhaka cafe massacre
Coming soon: A Bollywood film on Dhaka cafe massacre!
It's been over half a decade since the Dhaka cafe massacre, but it still continues to be a subject of macabre curiosity the world over due to its audacity. Now, a Bollywood film will delve into the details of Bangladesh's worst terror attack.
According to leading Indian film news portal peepingmoon.com, 53-year-old Bollywood filmmaker Hansal Mehta's upcoming movie 'Faraaz' is based on the grisly terrorist attack on the Holey Artisan cafe in the upmarket Gulshan district of Dhaka.
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The film -- a collaboration between Mehta and producer Anubhav Sinha -- chronicles the 12-hour siege that took place on July 1, 2016, the portal reported.
The attack was, in fact, carried out by a group of five young militants, who took nearly 50 diners -- mostly Japanese and Italian -- hostage at gunpoint and eventually killed 22 people. All the Islamists were later gunned down by elite Bangladeshi Army commandos.
In a televised address to the nation at the time, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina condemned the "extremely heinous act". "What kind of Muslims are these people? They don't have any religion," she had said.
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