Bonolota Express

One winter night, the Bonolota Express pulls out of Dhaka bound for Rajshahi. The education minister and his wife have the presidential saloon, while the rest of the train holds a couple expecting a baby, a doctor and his superstitious mother, a gang of students heading for their university entrance exam, and Chitra, a young woman running away from an arranged marriage. Then there's Rashid, a chain smoking mathematician travelling with a coffin.

Over the course of the journey their lives keep colliding, through jokes, rows and confessions, and nobody gets off quite the same. The narrator is Nuhash Humayun, son of the novelist Humayun Ahmed, speaking words his father wrote.

Tanim Noor, who'd had a hit with 'Utshob' the year before, adapted 'Bonolota Express' from Ahmed's short novel 'Kichukkhon', with a screenplay by Ayman Asib Shadhin and Samiul Bhuiyan, and produced it through his Buriganga Talkies banner alongside Hoichoi Studios. Mosharraf Karim, Chanchal Chowdhury, Sabila Nur, Sariful Razz and Azmeri Haque Badhon, the star of 'Rehana', head a large ensemble, and the songs pay tribute to rock singer Ayub Bachchu.

Released in Bangladesh for Eid al Fitr on 21 March 2026, it became the country's highest grossing film of the year and set records for a Bangladeshi release in the US and Canada. Its average across the four outlets collected on Movienco is 8.1 out of 10.

• Drama