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Filmmaker · Bangladesh

Sheikh Niamat Ali

Died in 2003

Sheikh Niamat Ali was born on 30 April 1940 in the district of the 24 Parganas, in Bengal, and studied at the University of Calcutta. Settled in Bangladesh, he made only three feature films, for which he wrote the screenplays himself, and each won him the national prize for best director; the second was also awarded at the Karlovy Vary festival in 1986, and he produced the third under his own name. He died in Dhaka on 24 November 2003.

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