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Filmmaker · Bangladesh

Amjad Hossain

Died in 2018

Amjad Hossain was born on 14 August 1942 in Iqbalpur, in Jamalpur district. Having come to Dhaka young, he did theatre there, wrote short stories, books for young readers and novels, made his screen debut as an actor in 1961 and was in the sixties an assistant to Zahir Raihan. A director, screenwriter and lyricist, he twice received the national award for best director, the Ekushey Padak in 1992 and the Bangla Academy award in 2004. Struck by a stroke, he died on 14 December 2018 in Bangkok, where he had been taken for treatment, and is buried in Jamalpur.

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