Abul Khair (actor)

For other people with the same name, see Abul Khair (disambiguation).

Abul Khair
আবুল খায়ের
Born	(1929-04-04)4 April 1929
Died	2 February 2001(2001-02-02) (aged 71)
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Occupation	Actor
Awards	Bangladesh National Film Awards

Abul Khair was a Bangladeshi television and film actor.^[1][2] He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor four times for his roles in the films Dahan (1985), Rajlakshmi Srikanta (1987), Anya Jibon (1995) and Dukhai (1997).^[3]

Career

Khair's acting career started in the mid 1950s . Later in life when he again started performing in television he acted in many Humayun Ahmed's television drama and film drama serial Ei Shob Din Ratri. He later acted in Bohubrihi, Aaj Robibar, Ayomoy Nokkhotrer Rat and others.^[1]

Besides being an actor on television and movies, he also held several executive positions domestically and internationally as follows:

• Director of Films, Ministry of Information of the then Government of East Pakistan and later on Government of Bangladesh during 1968 to 1976.
• During that time he got permission from Pakistan government to go to India to Directed documentary on now National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam (The Rebel Poet) in 1970.
• He orchestrated and directed the 7 March speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (the only copy was restored and saved by him during the war).^[4]
• He also made documentary on Bangladesh "This is Bangladesh" which was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival (1977)
• Managing Director of FDC (Film Development Corporation) during 1973 to 1975
• International Film Director, United Nations, New York City, United States during 1976 to 1980. In this capacity, he made many documentary movies on human habitat in Sri Lanka, Canada, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. He directed the documentary "The Big Village" for UN which is in the Bangladesh Film Archive and as well as the UN film archive.

Works

Television

• Ei Shob Din Ratri^[5][6]
• Kothao Keu Nei
• Bohubrihi
• Aaj Robibar (1999)
• Ayomoy
• Nimful (1997)
• Shobinoy Nibedon (1965)
• Nokkhotrer Rat '(1997)

Film

• Mukh O Mukhosh (1956)
• Kancher Deyal (1963)
• Sangam (1964)
• Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1973)
• Akhoni Shomoy (1981)
• Dahan (1985)
• Pension (1984)
• Rajlakshmi Srikanta (1987)
• Jinner Badshah (1989)
• Padma Nadir Majhi (1992)
• Patang (film) (1993)
• Ekattorer Jishu (1993)
• Abujh Sontan (1993)
• Chaka (1993)
• Anya Jibon (1995)
• Nodir Naam Modhumoti (1996)
• Dipu Number Two (1996)
• Dukhai (1997)
• Srabon Megher Din (1999)
• Somudro Bilash Private Limited (1999)

References

1. হুমায়ূন আহমেদের শিল্পীরা. Amar Desh (in Bengali). 21 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2015-08-04. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
2. "Actors of Humayun Ahmed" হুমায়ূন আহমেদের অভিনয় শিল্পীরা. Jaijaidin (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
3. জাতীয় চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার প্রাপ্তদের নামের তালিকা (১৯৭৫-২০১২) [List of the winners of National Film Awards (1975-2012)]. Government of Bangladesh (in Bengali). Bangladesh Film Development Corporation. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
4. "The phenomenal story of how Bangabandhu's 7 March speech was recorded". The Business Standard. 2022-03-07. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
5. হুমায়ূন স্পর্শে সোনারকাঠি. Bangladesh Pratidin (in Bengali). 2014-11-13. Archived from the original on 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
6. নিউজ, সময়. "মৃত্যুও যার অস্তিত্ব ম্লান করতে পারেনি এতটুকুও | বিনোদন". Somoy News (in Bengali). Retrieved 2023-05-16.

External links

• Abul Khair at IMDb