As a filmmaker, I am drawn to the stories that dwell in the margins tales that disturb, illuminate, and refuse to let us look away.

Pori Lost in Dhaka was born from an agonising reality in Bangladesh: the alarming rate of missing children and the systemic cruelty of human trafficking. Pori’s story is not an isolated tragedy. She represents countless real children and shattered families trapped in an invisible crisis that thrives on silence.

With this film, I wanted to strip away the abstractions of cold data and capture the raw, suffocating grief of parents searching for their child in a city of millions. I wanted to place the audience directly inside that nightmare—not as passive observers, but as witnesses to their terror, resilience, and fragile hope.

A film cannot dismantle an epidemic on its own, but it can break the silence that allows it to persist. Pori Lost in Dhaka is both a tribute to stolen childhoods and an unapologetic call to action.