Earlier Nazlee used a symbol of the "bandaged bondage" where a man was shown wrapped up in a bandage like an Egyptian mummy. In this work she says that people try to bring a change but somehow fail to do so. The surrounding animals and nature are also shown in turmoil. Similarly the artist had brought in parks where there were no trees or grass. In the playground we find prostitutes side by side with crows and a young man from the village playing the flute. The children in the park, instead of being golden in hue, are green with the prevailing illnesses. She shows a couple going in a rickshaw, but the husband and wife are looking in different directions. Again, she depicts how a man, going by a rickshaw, stares at a woman at the back.

This time, again, Nazlee has focused on rickshaws, keeping their original plastic hoods and adding drawings of her own, such as a man resting in a rickshaw, with the moon above him, or a man and woman holding hands. She has also brought in incidents such as Tisha who was chased by a gang of boys and had to resort to drowning herself. The victim is seen wearing a red dress, clinging on to books, and she has unabated fear in her eyes. In the background she depicts the Parliament building. What she normally depicts are the prostitutes, resting on a small scrap of traffic island, surrounded by rickshaws and police, and a man who drools at her lustfully from a passing car. She presents the alienation, lust, meanness and indignity that the impersonal cities subject people to. Often her paintings portray different street scenes on the same canvas on different angles.

In her depiction of the woman wishing to escape from the clinging demands of the home, the subject appears almost like the Coca-Cola billboard in the distance in the darkness of the night. Nazlee has come to the level now that she is criticising her own paintings. They appear on bedcovers, walls, curtains and carpets in front of lifts. By this she means that the paintings have lost their value.

Influenced by Marc Chagall, Edward Munch and David Hockney, Nalee's characters are people in everyday life as we see them in rickshaws, CNGs and taxis.

Nazlee did her Masters from Chittagong in the early '70s. Her teachers were Rashid Chowdhury, Murtaja Baseer and Devdas Chokroborty. They stressed on art history and art appreciation. They worked hard on drawing and painting and launched a painter like Nazlee who is superb in depicting the rootlessness and oppression of the people.