Mon Utshob
Bangladesh's First Psychological Festival
What if a festival didn't ask you to escape yourself, but invited you to meet yourself?
Mon Utshob was created as Bangladesh's first psychological festival—an experience where psychology stepped out of textbooks and became something people could walk through, touch, question, and feel.
Instead of simply talking about mental health, we transformed psychological concepts into experiences. Visitors explored interactive games that revealed their attachment styles, love languages, communication patterns, and emotional habits. Art installations invited people to question the invisible beliefs they had inherited. Theatre, music, comedy, and storytelling became tools to explore fear, anger, identity, belonging, and healing.
More than 20,000 people
More than 20,000 people, including Dhaka university students, families, artists, and professionals, joined the festival. For many, it was the first time psychology felt accessible—not clinical, but deeply human.
The Anger Room
One of the festival's most talked-about installations became the beginning of MajhaMajhi.
Visitors first entered a dark room filled with shattered glass, loud sounds, and punching bags. It was a space designed to acknowledge anger rather than suppress it. People were invited to scream, release, and confront emotions they had carried for years.
Then another door quietly opened. The second room was completely different.
The lighting softened. The colours changed. The atmosphere slowed. Along the walls, visitors discovered the psychology and neuroscience of anger—where it comes from, why it protects us, and how it can be regulated rather than feared.
The experience was never about teaching people to "control" their emotions.It was about changing their relationship with them.