Under Construction is about a modern Muslim woman struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh.
Struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh, Muslim theater actress Roya suffers from her husband's wish for children and traditional life. Not interested in motherhood, she decides to reconstruct a famous and politically minded play for modern times, reclaiming her identity, her freedom and her sexuality in the process.—Locarno Film Festival
Under Construction is about a modern Muslim woman struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh, where middle-class actress Roya reconstructs a famous and politically minded play of Rabindranath Tagore for modern times, reclaiming her agency in the process.—Seattle International Film Festival