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Filmmaker · Bangladesh

Nasiruddin Yousuff

Nasiruddin Yousuff was born on 15 April 1950 in Lalbagh, in old Dhaka, the seventh of the ten children of Abul Fayez Mohammad Yousuf and Samsun Nahar. A student in 1971, he fought in the urban guerrilla and commanded the Mukti Bahini of northern Dhaka. In 1973 he founded the Dhaka Theatre troupe with the playwright Selim Al Deen, then the Gram Theatre, and staged many of his partner's plays. He received the Ekushey Padak in 2010, for his work in the theatre, then the national award for film direction.

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