The making of Bangla

Abstract

Bangla tells a story about a migrant worker who ends up moonlighting at a struggling hawker stall in his desperation to send money home. It is an attempt to shed light on the local-foreigner relationship in Singapore where the two communities co-exist on a tiny red dot for nothing more than a living transaction. However, the meeting of Savi and Ang is an allegory of two seemingly different communities realizing their need for each other, and the similarities that they share, no matter how brief the encounter may be.