Chashi Nazrul Islam

Chashi Nazrul Islam (23 October 1941 – 11 January 2015) was a Bangladeshi film director and producer.

Early life and career

Islam was born on 23 October 1941 at Shomoshpur village in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj to Mosleh Uddin Khan and Shayesta Khanom. He was the eldest among four brothers and three sisters. His father was a service holder at Jamshedpur, India. At the age of 16, his father died. He got a job at the office of his uncle, the then auditor general of Pakistan. He was a member of the theatre organisation Krishti Sangha.

After he got laid off from that job, he started to perform on radio programs in 1965. He directed and voiced popular radio dramas like Ramer Sumoti (1965), Socrates (1966), and Sokhina Birongona (1974). Chashi started his career in visual media in 1964 when he had the opportunity to work on television program through audition. He worked as assistant director on the film Dui Digonto, directed by Obaidur Rahman. Later he assisted Fateh Lohani.

He participated in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. After Bangladesh achieved independence, he made the first film on the subject of the liberation war, Ora Egaro Jon. His last movies were Antaranga Released in 2015 & Bhul jodi Hoi 2015, where he Launched Alisha Pradhan in Dhallywood but ironically he could be part of the release.

Filmography

Awards

Death

At 73 Islam died of liver cancer at the Labaid Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh on January 11, 2015.^[3]

References

External links

• Chashi Nazrul Islam at the Internet Movie Database
• Chashi Nazrul Islam, Munshigonj
• Chashi Nazrul Islam, Gunijon