Happy with the excellent feedback, Mejbauddin Ahmed from Star Cineplex said: "We had housefuls last weekend. The kind of people who come to watch our films are usually learned and sensible."
"Sometimes people leave the hall when movies have brutal scenes but no one has walked out yet."
Romin Rayhan, manager at Blockbuster Cinemas, said the turnout was better than expected and took pride in offering "something alternative" for viewers.
"I saw it too, Bangladeshi filmmakers should make movies like this," he said.
Sudipto Das, a partner in Khan Brothers, the film's distributor in Bangladesh, said the hype was great when the movie opened, but ticket sales slowed a bit since then.
The filmmaker deserves to be praised for his gut-wrenching portrayals of the lives, trapped in what is repeatedly termed by the captured women as 'Jahannam' (hell), all for the cause of Pakistan.
More than 600,000 rapes took place in nine months during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.
