Overview
A humorous exploration of love and friendship among a group of bachelors navigating romance.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- witty
- warm
- restless
- romantic movie night
- South Asian cinema night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The bachelor friends' separate romantic complications overlap through Sathi, Fahim, Rumel, Hasan, Shaila, and Abrar.
Hasan is attracted to his much younger classmate Shaila, while Abrar, in his late fifties, continues searching urgently for love.
Sathi frames her relationships as friendship, Hasan cannot express his feelings, and the men’s desires surface through ego clashes and desperate efforts.
The story follows a group of bachelor friends living together as their romantic complications circulate within their shared social world.
Films like Bachelor, and why
The Lunchbox
ensemble romantic drama exploring friendship, desire, and emotionally complicated relationships
Piku
warm, character-driven South Asian romance centered on imperfect connections and missed emotional opportunities
Love Actually
interwoven relationship stories balancing romantic confusion, humor, and bittersweet human behavior
Movie Details
- Director
- Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
- Release Date
- 2004-01-31
- Runtime
- 148 min
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 (4)
Cast
- Humayun Faridi
- Ahmed Rubel
- Ferdous Ahmed
- Hasan Masood
- Marzuk Russell
- Arman Parvez Murad
- Alien Shohag
- Elora Gohor
- Shabnur
- Aupee Karim
Common questions
- What is Bachelor about?
- A lively Bengali ensemble dramedy follows bachelor friends whose tangled romances expose pride, hesitation, age-gap desire, and the restless search for companionship.
- What is Bachelor like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Bachelor as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Bachelor violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Bachelor.
- Which films are like Bachelor?
- Films with a similar feel include The Lunchbox, Piku, and Love Actually.
- How long is Bachelor?
- Bachelor runs 148 minutes.
