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Lalsalu

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Chapter 1 - In a remote agrarian village, suddenly a haggard-looking Mullah named Majid appears. He cleans up an old dilapidated grave and declares it as the shrine of a famous 'Pir' (a holy man). He begins to ta

In this adaptation of Syed Waliullah's 1948 study of religious hypocrisy, a Muslim cleric arrives in a remote Bangladeshi farming community and gradually convinces the villagers that a dilapidated grave is actually the resting place of a famous holyman. The cleric, while pocketing the offerings left at the grave, quickly ascends to a position of great power in the village, first marrying one local woman before turning his sights on another.

—sienel