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‘Saba’ Review: An Impressive Debut About a Family Trapped in Bangladesh’s Poor Disability Infrastructure
In 'Saba,' director Maksud Hossain draws on European realism to craft his modern social dramaIn 'Saba,'
To pay for Shirin’s life-saving surgery, Saba finds a waitressing job at a seedy hookah lounge in Dhaka — a position in which, she’s told, women tend not to last — with long hours that only complicate her caregiving duties. Upon the death of his father-in-law, the director’s wife and co-writer Trilora Khan became sole caregiver to her disabled mother; “Saba” is a work of fiction, but it comes from a real, painful place in which there’s little nobility to be mined from the mere act of keeping someone alive. Like Saba and Shirin, Ankur feels bound to a city that has no love and few opportunities for him, forcing him to run an illicit liquor business on the side while he saves money to move abroad.
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