Sheikh Niamat Ali

Sheikh Niamat Ali
Born	(1940-04-30)30 April 1940 24 Parganas, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died	24 November 2003(2003-11-24) (aged 63) Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Alma mater	Calcutta University
Occupation	Film director

Sheikh Niamat Ali (30 April 1940 – 24 November 2003)^[1] was a Bangladeshi film director.^[2] He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director in 1979, 1985, and 1995 for all the three feature films he ever made - Surja Dighal Bari, Dahan, and Anyajiban respectively.^[1][3]

Career

In 1977, Ali and his co-director Masihuddin Shaker started shooting the film Surja Dighal Bari. The film was based on a novel by Abu Ishaque about the rural people in the 1950s. It won five international awards, including the Mannheim Film Festival and the Portugal Film Society.^[4] It was the first film made with a Bangladesh government grant.^[1]

Filmography

• Surja Dighal Bari (1979)
• Dahan (1985)
• Anya Jibon (1995)

Awards

• Chalachchitram Award 2004^[5]

References

1. Sabbir Chowdhury (December 11, 2003). "Homage to Salahuddin and Sheikh Niamat Ali, filmmakers : Bangladesh loses two great exponents of film art". The Daily Star. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
2. "Sheikh Niamat Ali". The Daily Star. November 24, 2007. Retrieved January 11, 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. "Did you know?". The Daily Star. June 13, 2005. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
5. Jamil Mahmud (November 24, 2007). "Tanvir Mokammel receives 'Chalachchitram Padak'". The Daily Star. Retrieved January 11, 2016.

External links

• Sheikh Niamat Ali at IMDb