Professor Abdus Selim on writing the English screenplay for ‘The Grave’

Having lost his family, the journey of a Muslim man digging a hundred graves to enter shapes the story of The Grave, the first Bangladeshi film to be made in English. For playwright, translator, and academic Abdus Selim, translating the original Bangla screenplay—titled Gor—by Gazi Rakayet was part of the vision of seeing Bangladeshi films find international recognition. In a