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Filmmaker · Bangladesh

Chashi Nazrul Islam

Died in 2015

Chashi Nazrul Islam was born on 23 October 1941 in Shomoshpur, in the Sreenagar sub-district, in Munshiganj district. Fatherless at sixteen and the eldest of seven children, he joined the office of his uncle, the Auditor General of Pakistan, while performing with the Krishti Sangha troupe. Assistant director from 1964, a radio man from 1965, he fought in 1971. He subsequently directed between twenty and thirty films depending on the sources, twice received the national award for direction and the Ekushey Padak in 2004, and died in Dhaka on 11 January 2015.

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