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Filmmaker · Bangladesh

Abdul Jabbar Khan

Died in 1993

Abdul Jabbar Khan was born in 1916 in the village of Masadgaon, in what is now Lohajang sub-district, in Munshiganj district. He acted in the theatre from his schooldays, earned a diploma from the Ahsanullah School of Engineering in Dhaka in 1941 and founded a troupe, the Kamlapur Dramatic Association. He then directed several films, in Bengali and in Urdu, until the early seventies. He died on 29 December 1993; the library of the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation bears his name.

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