8.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Comedy, Drama, Family • 2025 • 112 min
Utshob (2025)
Utshob (2025)
Overview
Utshob is a Bangladeshi comedy-drama that transplants the bones of A Christmas Carol into an Eid setting in Dhaka. A grumpy, miserly man named Jahangir receives three ghostly visitors who drag him through his own past and force him to reckon with the family and warmth he has pushed away. The Leans Traditional label follows naturally from the story's architecture: redemption here means returning to a wife, a daughter, a nephew, and a community, not reinventing oneself on independent terms. Islam and Eid function as positive cultural backdrop rather than critique. There is no political friction, no identity-politics subplot, just a classic moral fable dressed in Bangladeshi clothes and served with generous sentiment.
Starring Cast
Zahid Hasan • Chanchal Chowdhury • Jaya Ahsan
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Strongly Traditional
Islam: Positive
Viewer Rating
8.6
Overview
Utshob is a Bangladeshi comedy-drama that transplants the bones of A Christmas Carol into an Eid setting in Dhaka. A grumpy, miserly man named Jahangir receives three ghostly visitors who drag him through his own past and force him to reckon with the family and warmth he has pushed away. The Leans Traditional label follows naturally from the story's architecture: redemption here means returning to a wife, a daughter, a nephew, and a community, not reinventing oneself on independent terms. Islam and Eid function as positive cultural backdrop rather than critique. There is no political friction, no identity-politics subplot, just a classic moral fable dressed in Bangladeshi clothes and served with generous sentiment.
Starring Cast
Zahid Hasan • Chanchal Chowdhury • Jaya Ahsan
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film's core is a straightforward adaptation of A Christmas Carol centered on a miser's personal awakening through confronting his past, present, and future, championing individual change, family bonds, and communal kindness without engaging ideological frameworks or systemic critiques.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
Utshob is a Bangladeshi comedy-drama set in Dhaka featuring an ensemble of local actors in culturally authentic roles. Its story follows a miserly man's redemption through family and community ties during Eid, emphasizing generosity without any critique of traditional identities.
Secondary
Family Values: Strongly Traditional
Confidence: High
The film's core narrative follows a miser's redemption through reconnection with his estranged wife Jesmin, their daughter Esha, nephew Joy (raised as a son), cousin Mobarak's memory, and the broader community during Eid celebrations, portraying lifelong marriage, parental responsibility, multigenerational bonds, and cultural family traditions as the path to fulfillment and positive change.
Islam: Positive
Confidence: High
The film is a cultural reimagining of A Christmas Carol set during Eid in a Bangladeshi Muslim community, centering on themes of generosity, community, and redemption during Eid celebrations and Chaand Raat, affirming positive cultural and spiritual values without preaching.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. It centers on a miser's redemption through community and generosity in a family-friendly Eid comedy-drama inspired by A Christmas Carol.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film contains no transgender characters or themes, centering instead on a miserly man's redemption through encounters with spectral figures in a festive family drama.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
Utshob is a loose cultural adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the central miserly protagonist Jahangir portrayed as male by male actor Zahid Hasan, matching the canonical male gender of Ebenezer Scrooge. No named, plot-relevant characters show a mismatch between established source gender and on-screen portrayal.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Utshob is a Bangladeshi cultural reimagining of A Christmas Carol set in Dhaka during Eid, featuring an all-Bangladeshi cast in original local roles with no recast legacy characters from prior canon.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.4
8.8
Critic Ratings
N/A
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