'Are You Happy?' This Visual Survey Will Make You Tear Up (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Sarah Barness Posted: 09/27/2013 5:28 pm EDT | Updated: 09/27/2013 11:09 pm EDT
The Huffington Post | By Sarah Barness Posted: 09/27/2013 5:28 pm EDT | Updated: 09/27/2013 11:09 pm EDT
Bangladesh is one of the happiest countries in the world, according to The Happy Planet Index. Photographer and filmmaker Farhan Hussain embarked on a journey through the streets of Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka, to find out if that was true.
He and a few friends went to various locations in the city to ask random pedestrians the question, "Are you happy?"
Hussain told The Huffington Post in an email that even though Bangladesh has plenty of strikes, poverty and pollution, he wanted to make a film that depicted a human connection that all residents of Dhaka could relate to. He wrote:
We are all tired of political videos and all the things that are wrong with our country. The story of a country and of individuals can be vastly different, and I always found stories of individuals really interesting. I wanted people to tell their own life stories, and the subject of happiness seemed the most fitting. After all that's our ultimate goal in life, to be happy.
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28.5.2012 00:00 ... The third global HPI report reveals that this is largely still an unhappy planet ..... The HPI score in thisreport is calculated using the mean.
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