Bangladeshi film actor Apu Biswas has returned safely to Dhaka with the full shooting team of the film “Shikar” after facing severe flood and landslide conditions in Nepal. Speaking to journalists on Friday after returning, she described frightening moments near Kathmandu and said the team had narrowly avoided a major danger.

Biswas said the group had been scheduled to travel back to Kathmandu by the same route on August 27, one day after the disaster struck nearby. She said the road has been declared completely closed to traffic for the next 15 to 20 days because of the scale of the calamity. Her fans had been concerned after reports of flooding and landslides in Nepal.

The team decided to suspend filming in Nepal, saying continuing work amid the humanitarian crisis would have been inappropriate. Biswas said filming romantic-song scenes while local residents were suffering would have felt discourteous and uncomfortable. She had been in Nepal for several days with co-artists for “Shikar,” in which Kolkata actor Kharaj Mukherjee appears opposite her. Mukherjee had earlier said he was safe.