Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Okay, if you’ve gone over the 2012 Ohio Independent Film
Festival program by now you are probably thinking that MURGO KENO MUTANT ("Attack of the Killer Mutant Chickens") is
some sort of prank announcment; a Bangladeshi short about martial-arts chefs battling a
flock of deadly chickens ravaging the future Bangladesh . What is this thing?
First of all, for those of you unfamiliar with world geography (those whose map
of the world probably just shows a large “DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND CASINO” landmass
and not much else), Bangladesh
is a small, rather impoverished country adjacent to India . No, the United States
is not at war with them as yet.
I think MURGO KENO MUTANT might be the first piece of
Bangladeshi cinema I’ve ever beheld, and while it is probably not
representative, all I can say is...wow!
