Through its clichéd depiction of violent corruption, “Extraction” has unwittingly hit Bangladesh’s authorities where it hurts most
BANGLADESHIS CAN count on one hand the number of times their country has featured in a Hollywood film. So when it was announced that a blockbuster set in Dhaka, the capital, was to be released on Netflix, Bangladesh was abuzz with anticipation. When “Extraction” launched on the streaming service on April 24th, however, Dhaka’s starring role resulted not in pride but indignation. It may also have left some government officials feeling more than a little exposed.
Bar a few details—such as the green auto rickshaws which whiz down every road—the fictional Dhaka bears little resemblance to its real-life counterpart. The gangsters’ slum lair is improbably spacious, and when the characters’ fighting tears through flats, their occupants are listening to out-of-date Bollywood music and wearing saris tied in an Indian fashion. Only a few of the actors playing Bangladeshis, none of whom actually hail from Bangladesh, are able to speak Bangla convincingly.
Yet “Extraction” has irked some in Bangladesh not only because of what it gets wrong, but because of what it gets right. A drug-dealer ordering a colonel from an “elite” security force to shut the city, as happens at the start of the film, is farcical. If an officer had demanded a cut of the drug-dealer’s takings and shot him for refusing, though, it would not have been so far-fetched.
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