Ijajul Mia said yesterday he had received hundreds of calls every day since the release in June of Rajniti, in which the country’s top movie star Shakib Khan is seen giving the number to his girlfriend.
“The use of my number in the movie made my life completely miserable,” he said.
“Every day I got hundreds of calls from mostly female fans of Shakib Khan. They would say ‘Hello Shakib, I am your fan. Do you have two minutes to talk to me?’”
Mia said he had been asked to leave his family home since the movie’s release and his wife had threatened to leave him.
He argued that he couldn’t take a new number because his clients knew the old one and he would lose business.
“I am a married man with one daughter. When these calls started coming, my wife thought that I was having an affair,” he said.
One fan even travelled 500km (300 miles) to see him after learning where
he lived.
Now Mia wants to sue Khan, who also produced and directed the movie, for damages of 5mn taka ($60,975).
His lawyer M A Majed said he had filed the suit this week, but the district judge was initially hesitant to accept it.
“The judge ordered an investigation after we submitted evidence showing how these phone calls have almost destroyed the life of Ijajul,” Majed said.