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Boishommo, internationally distributed as Journey to the Heart, is a full-length feature film produced in Bangladesh. The film was awarded a censor certificate by the Bangladesh Board of Censors in November 2013; however, it was released only in March of 2014 owing to massive political violence engulfing the country through the last quarter of 2013 into the first two months of 2014.

On the 21st of March 2014, the public first got to see Boishommo in Dhaka city's Star Cineplex and Blockbuster Movies. Featuring teenage actor Abir Hossain Ankon, who was 14 years old during the making of the film, Boishommo was highly praised by the audience for being a movie that stood out for its unorthodox style and its strong message. In November 2014, Boishommo also became the first Bangladeshi film to be commercially released in India without being an Indo-Bangladeshi joint production. The film was exported to India by Dhaka-based Show Motion Ltd., who simultaneously imported the Indian film Roar - The Tigers of the Sunderbans as an exchange film. Earlier attempts by Show Motion and other companies to export Bangladeshi films to India had ended in frustration, as India refused to accept films that they termed "bad imitations" of their own films. But Boishommo, for its differentiated style, broke the barriers and ended up being accepted by the Indian Board of Censors.

The most remarkable feature of Boishommo was the outstanding performance given by teenage actor Abir Hossain Ankon. The Bangladeshi audience unanimously agreed that they had never before seen such mature performance coming from such a young actor. While the low budget made itself visible in certain aspects of the film, Ankon's performance fooled the audience into believing that the film was indeed a high-budget production. Supporting actors were Sajjad Hossain Rony as the slum boy, Promia Rahman as the lead actor's younger sister, Mita Chowdhury as a worried mother and Adam Dawla as an angry father.

The cinematography also differentiated itself from that of other Bangladeshi films. The intentional exaggeration in the movements of the camera was meant to express the restlessness in the minds of the actors. And the film was indeed disturbing, which proved that the camera work was successful. However, budgetary constraints forced the director to change his camera operators a few times, resulting in a lack of consistency in the style of cinematography. This was a major factor that fortunately went largely unnoticed by most of the audience, who were engrossed in the story and enraptured by the overall making of the film. A few scenes of Boishommo were shot in Germany, but the major part of the film was shot in the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The director of photography was Mohammed Hossain Jaimy, a film-maker in his own right. While Jaimy had never before accepted offers to work under anyone's supervision before, he gladly took on Dawla's offer because he liked the script so much.

The music of Boishommo consisted, to a major part, of contributions made by Kevin MacLeod. Supplementary pieces were composed by the director, Adam Dawla. The primary editing was done by Adam Dawla while the movie was finalized by Ashraful Alam.

Boishommo was produced by Kirtonkhola Productions and distributed within Bangladesh by the same company. Presented by One Stone Films, the film was internationally distributed by Germany-based Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction. The executive producers of the film were Adam Dawla and Nasreen F. Awal Mintoo. Manuel Schaefer and Tiklu Kanti Das were also involved in additional investments.