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Filmmaker · Bangladesh

Khan Ataur Rahman

Died in 1997

Khan Ataur Rahman was born on 11 December 1928 in Ramkantapur, in the Singair sub-district, in Manikganj district. A pupil of Dhaka Collegiate School, he ran away from home twice for the cinema, served his apprenticeship in Bombay, then worked in London in theatre companies. Back in Dhaka in 1956, he played the lead in an Urdu-language film by A. J. Kardar, then moved into directing in 1963. A singer and composer of more than five hundred songs, he died in Dhaka on 1 December 1997 and received the Ekushey Padak posthumously in 2003.

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