“Dhaka Attack” pushes over “Secret Superstar” in NY
“Dhaka Attack”, the Bangladeshi cop action blockbuster that took the country's cinema halls by a whirl early this month, is now making its mark in the overseas market. According to the international distributors Swapna Scarecrow, the film has displaced Aamir Khan's Bollywood release “Secret Superstar” for a larger theatre at the Regal Cineplex in New York, USA after expatriate Bangladeshis flocked to the halls to sell out the first two shows.
Owner of Swapna Scarecrow Soptok Sajib said the first show at the Kaufman Astoria New York venue of Regal Cinemas, one of the largest cineplex chains in the world, was sold out on Friday and the cinema hall bumped “Dhaka Attack” to a larger hall on Saturday, pushing back “Secret Superstar” to a smaller hall. Lo and behold, the bigger hall also had no seats left and from Sunday the number of shows has been increased to two at one of NY's busiest multiplexes. To add credibility to the claim, there is a video on Facebook poster by actor Adnan Faruque Hillol watching the film in theatres in New York, with a large crowd rapturously cheering as the song “Tikatuli” plays on screen. Faruque captioned the video “Houseful here as well.”
The film is also running in Dallas in the USA; in Calgary, Toronto, Mississauga and Winnipeg in Canada and is set for release in the Middle East this Friday.
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