A supporter of Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina threatened to sue a cinema over a spelling error that inadvertently suggested she had a “tail”.<\/p>\n
The cinema in Dhaka misspelled the title, Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale – but has since corrected it.<\/p>\n
Hasina supporter Saad Chowdhury said the word tail was “elfish”; suggested part of an animal, and was humiliating.<\/p>\n
He demanded the Blockbuster cinema correct the error and apologise publicly or face a $90m (\u00a370m) lawsuit.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh will hold a general election next month, with Prime Minister Hasina and her Awami League hoping to retain power.<\/p>\n
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Mr Chowdhury, a former general secretary of the Bangladesh Awami British Law Students Union, is not acting officially on behalf of the party.<\/p>\n
His lawyer, Nawroz Chowdhury, said his aim had been to have the error corrected as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
The legal notice sent to the cinema at the Jamuna Future Park shopping mall describes him as a “diehard supporter” of Ms Hasina while the film itself is repeatedly referred to as “legendary”.<\/p>\n
The topic is trending on social media, where opinion is split.<\/p>\n
How should I react – laugh or cry? Tale becomes tail which is definitely defamatory,” said Facebook user Mokbul Hossain.<\/p>\n
“It’s just a typo, bro. Apparently, you are using cannons to fight mosquitoes,” commented Facebook user Shaqlain Shayon.<\/p>\n
The biopic about Ms Hasina – daughter of Bangladesh’s first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – has been described by the Dhaka Tribune newspaper as a docudrama and features Ms Hasina’s sister Sheikh Rehana as narrator.<\/p>\n
After its premiere in Dhaka, Finance Minister Abul Muhith told the newspaper it was “amazing” and “timeless” and\u00a0he had “learned a lot of new things from it”<\/a>.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-46252184<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A supporter of Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina threatened to sue a cinema over a spelling error that inadvertently suggested she had a “tail”. The cinema in Dhaka misspelled the title, Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale – but has since corrected it. Hasina supporter Saad Chowdhury said the word tail was “elfish”; suggested part of an animal, and was humiliating. He demanded… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}