
Acting
Gazi Rakayet
Born
1966-06-15 (60)
Place of birth
Bangladesh
Known for
Acting
Credits
37 titles
Gazi Rakayet is a Bangladeshi actor, director and writer. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Dialogue and Best Story for the film Mrittika Maya (2013). He also earned the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in the film Anil Bagchir Ekdin (2015).
Known for
7.0Four women are pushed to their breaking point in Dhaka’s underbelly, where the only way to survive systemic exploitation is to stop being the prey and start being the threat.
Pressure Cooker
2026
7.0A solitary middle aged man marries a madwoman and builds a house on a vacant plot of land far from the village. However, his wife’s madness becomes a calamity in his tranquil life.
Roid
2026
6.5Biopic on the father of the nation of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The film will showcase his growing up as a child to his standing up against all injustice in his youth to fighting for the independence of his country. How he led a country to it's independence with his inspirational presence and fight for the justice.
Mujib: The Making of a Nation
2023
8.0Twenty years ago, the supposed suicide of an actor at the peak of his career ignited public outrage and an investigation. When a viral video makes the cold case the talk of the town again, it's up to ASP Golam Mamun to uncover the truth.
Buker Moddhye Agun
2023
7.8A group of masked assailants storms the office of the country’s top television channel, taking the staff and a prominent minister, who was there for an interview, hostage. While the nation's law enforcement agencies race to uncover the identity of the mastermind behind the attack, the mastermind reveals himself live on the channel’s program, exposing the stories of ordinary people who have fallen victim to high-level corruption. Thus begins a rampage against the injustices of the system.
Taandob
2025
6.0Discover the enchanting world of Adhunik Bangla Hotel, an anthology series that serves up a tantalizing array of authentic Bangla cuisine infused with fantasy, psychological horror and mythology, where each story unveils a new dish that will leave you craving for more.
Adhunik Bangla Hotel
2024
Film credits
2020s · 16 titles
7.0Four women are pushed to their breaking point in Dhaka’s underbelly, where the only way to survive systemic exploitation is to stop being the prey and start being the threat.
Pressure Cooker
2026
7.0A solitary middle aged man marries a madwoman and builds a house on a vacant plot of land far from the village. However, his wife’s madness becomes a calamity in his tranquil life.
Roid
2026
6.5Biopic on the father of the nation of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The film will showcase his growing up as a child to his standing up against all injustice in his youth to fighting for the independence of his country. How he led a country to it's independence with his inspirational presence and fight for the justice.
Mujib: The Making of a Nation
2023
7.8A group of masked assailants storms the office of the country’s top television channel, taking the staff and a prominent minister, who was there for an interview, hostage. While the nation's law enforcement agencies race to uncover the identity of the mastermind behind the attack, the mastermind reveals himself live on the channel’s program, exposing the stories of ordinary people who have fallen victim to high-level corruption. Thus begins a rampage against the injustices of the system.
Taandob
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bonolata Sen
2026
6.5Shirja Mia is grave digger. He begs from village to village to get death news. Now he has only two things in his life. One is a doll which he bought for his daughter and other is a number which he has got from his ancestors. His ancestors believed that if someone could dig hundred graves he would surely be placed in heaven. But no one could ever reach the target. When shirja was young he came to a Char and got married. They had a lovely daughter named Rahela. He had to go to town for work. Rahela asked for a doll from the town. One day Shirja bought a doll, but he couldn't come back to Char due to bad weather. Next day he heard that the tidal bore had washed out the Char. Later he came back to Char. But he didn't find his daughter and wife anywhere. The Char was full of dead bodies. At that time he started digging graves. When one grave left to reach the hundredth, he falls in big crisis with a girl like his daughter. Will Shirja be able to complete one hundred graves?
The Grave
2020
NROn a dark night, Khosru gets trapped in blackmail and tense questions on a rooftop. Suddenly, Sara hears a terrifying scream. Was it only an accident, or did something much more frightening happen that night?
Sarar Shongshar
2026
NRBased on Qazi Anwar Hussain's novel series Masud Rana aka MR-9.
Masud Rana
2026
6.0How far would you go, and what would you risk for the one you love? What drives Ananya, a city girl, to this distant village and where will her journey lead?
Lifeline
2026
NRSet in 16th century Eastern Bengal, the film is inspired by the life of Chandrabati, Bengal`s first feminist poet. The story follows her falling in love with another poet, Jayananda, who later leaves her for another woman. The betrayal pushes Chandrabati to renounce marriage, confine herself inside a Shiva temple and start rewriting the Ramayana - an act which eventually led to her becoming a historic figure.
The Tales of Chandrabati
2020
5.5Hasan has left behind his dark past to lead a happy family life with his wife and two daughters. One night, posing as law enforcement officers, a group abruptly takes him from his home, casting a shroud of dreadful uncertainty over the entire family.
Amalnama
2025
NRIn an isolated house where flowers wilt at a touch and time refuses to move in a straight line, a fragile young widow begins a new life, with a much older husband, she can't quite trust - haunted by warnings, watched by something patient, and carrying a secret that isn't only her own. When an impossible death draws a sharp-witted detective into the house's orbit, he finds a place that bends memory, guards an ancient purpose, and refuses to let anyone leave unchanged. What waits beneath is older than the walls, and the answer, when it comes at dawn, will reach further than anyone expects.
Andhar
2026
6.8Nishan spent more than twelve years behind bars. The story begins as he steps out of prison, only to find that the world he left behind has changed drastically. Society refuses to accept him as one of its own. Thus begins Nishan's struggle to survive in an unfamiliar world.
Daagi
2025
NRThe first film made in Bangladesh about Cerebral Palsy.
See the Person
2026
NRThe film will highlight the struggles of women in the circus. In the film, Jaya Ahsan performs amazing acrobatics—with such feats as walking over a tightrope.
Beauty Circus
2022
5.8After the sensational 'Titas Gas Employee Murder' case was handed to the Detective Branch of the Police, the investigation was handed over to Masood Munshi, ADC of the detective branch. Masood Munshi, in collaboration with his wife Parveen Sultana, uses his old method of revealing secrets. The story of secret revenge. It is a breathtaking story about the involvement of Ishtiaq Mirza, the accused writer in the murder case.
Munshigiri
2021
2010s · 3 titles
7.0A Hindu man caught in the midst of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 risks his life to see his sister.
A Day in the Life of Anil Bagchi
2015
NRAn aspiring social worker is torn between adopting a child and being a spouse.
Glow of the Firefly
2014
6.9The story of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
My Friend Rashed
2011
2000s · 5 titles
8.0During the Liberation War of Bangladesh, a college teacher who shelters his friend's cousin fall in love with the girl.
Dollhouse
2006
5.2Mr. Rafiq is given an option to develop the ancestral property by a privet developer agent. The house carries the style of typical historic buildings of old Dhaka; which are being pushed aside by urban modernization. With the decision hanging, Ruba, his daughter, leaves her husband in the US and returns to Dhaka. The cause being her husband's excessive misbehave. Ruba tries to find peace in her memory soaked old home but could not as the decision to reconstruct the property is discussed and debated over and over again. Another character, Soleman, obedient servant of Mr. Rafiq becomes irritating to Ruba since he has a rivalry with the local power holders. As Ruba seeks her memories in the home, she occasionally watches a man on a neighboring flat. The man notices this. With the man's efforts they finally get to be friends. But the orthodox mindset of the father desperately looks for ways to stop the developing relationship or perhaps a new hope for Ruba.
Aha!
2007
8.0A small market named Ranighat is situated at river bank. A madwoman Sokhina lives under a tree in the market. Everyday many people visits the market and some of them had physical relation with her and she becomes pregnant. Moira Masi looks after her. Sokhina gives birth a girl and died after few years. Till then Moira Masi rears up the girl. The girl got no name and everyone calls her Falani. Falani grows up and gets closer to Kashu. Everyone in the market wants them get married. But Kashu's father disagrees at this and confess his sin to Falani that brings her same consequence like her mother.
Chandragrohon
2008
NRPriotomeshu (My Darling) is a Bangladeshi film by director Morshedul Islam.
Love and Repulsion
2009
5.3A lone gun-man enters a typical Bangladeshi town to find his identity and take revenge on the person who raped his mother during the war. In the course of revenge he is used by the internal clash of two rival leaders of the town.
The Last Thakur
2008
Series credits
8.0Twenty years ago, the supposed suicide of an actor at the peak of his career ignited public outrage and an investigation. When a viral video makes the cold case the talk of the town again, it's up to ASP Golam Mamun to uncover the truth.
Buker Moddhye Agun
2023
6.0Discover the enchanting world of Adhunik Bangla Hotel, an anthology series that serves up a tantalizing array of authentic Bangla cuisine infused with fantasy, psychological horror and mythology, where each story unveils a new dish that will leave you craving for more.
Adhunik Bangla Hotel
2024
NRSeven dramas in seven days with 7 different stories under the banner of Chabial Reunion. The series of drama will be directed by country's leading directors Mostafa Kamal Raz, Adnan Al Rajeev, Ashfaque Nipun, Humayun Sadhu, Saraf Ahmed Zibon, Redoan Rony, Iftekhar Ahmed Fahmi, Ashutosh Sujon, under the supervision and direction of country's one of the famous and popular director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki.
Chabial Reunion
2017
7.8An anthology series exploring the psychoanalytic journey of the human mind, death, commodity, mental health, and crime.
Unoloukik
2021
NRThe stories of 1952, 1970 and 1971- that we never seen, told or heard !!
Jaago Bahey
2021
Behind the camera
6.5Shirja Mia is grave digger. He begs from village to village to get death news. Now he has only two things in his life. One is a doll which he bought for his daughter and other is a number which he has got from his ancestors. His ancestors believed that if someone could dig hundred graves he would surely be placed in heaven. But no one could ever reach the target. When shirja was young he came to a Char and got married. They had a lovely daughter named Rahela. He had to go to town for work. Rahela asked for a doll from the town. One day Shirja bought a doll, but he couldn't come back to Char due to bad weather. Next day he heard that the tidal bore had washed out the Char. Later he came back to Char. But he didn't find his daughter and wife anywhere. The Char was full of dead bodies. At that time he started digging graves. When one grave left to reach the hundredth, he falls in big crisis with a girl like his daughter. Will Shirja be able to complete one hundred graves?
The Grave
2020
6.5Shirja Mia is grave digger. He begs from village to village to get death news. Now he has only two things in his life. One is a doll which he bought for his daughter and other is a number which he has got from his ancestors. His ancestors believed that if someone could dig hundred graves he would surely be placed in heaven. But no one could ever reach the target. When shirja was young he came to a Char and got married. They had a lovely daughter named Rahela. He had to go to town for work. Rahela asked for a doll from the town. One day Shirja bought a doll, but he couldn't come back to Char due to bad weather. Next day he heard that the tidal bore had washed out the Char. Later he came back to Char. But he didn't find his daughter and wife anywhere. The Char was full of dead bodies. At that time he started digging graves. When one grave left to reach the hundredth, he falls in big crisis with a girl like his daughter. Will Shirja be able to complete one hundred graves?
The Grave
2020
6.5Shirja Mia is grave digger. He begs from village to village to get death news. Now he has only two things in his life. One is a doll which he bought for his daughter and other is a number which he has got from his ancestors. His ancestors believed that if someone could dig hundred graves he would surely be placed in heaven. But no one could ever reach the target. When shirja was young he came to a Char and got married. They had a lovely daughter named Rahela. He had to go to town for work. Rahela asked for a doll from the town. One day Shirja bought a doll, but he couldn't come back to Char due to bad weather. Next day he heard that the tidal bore had washed out the Char. Later he came back to Char. But he didn't find his daughter and wife anywhere. The Char was full of dead bodies. At that time he started digging graves. When one grave left to reach the hundredth, he falls in big crisis with a girl like his daughter. Will Shirja be able to complete one hundred graves?
The Grave
2020
NRThe first film made in Bangladesh about Cerebral Palsy.
See the Person
2026
NRKhirmohon is an old man and a potter by profession. All his life, he has struggled to keep his head above water and now is the owner of his own pottery house and a banyan tree. His two sons Satten and Nikhil stay in the city and prefer urban life. They have no interest in their father's business and want to sell up his life's work for financial gain. The silver lining in Khirmohon's life is his granddaughter Poddo, who is an eye catching dusky beauty. They stay in their village house with another person named Boishakh, who was adopted by Khirmohon when he was just a mere child. Boishakh is a passionate character, who is loyal to Khirmohon and is more interested in keeping the pottery business afloat then Khirmohon's own sons. There is a spark between Poddo and Boishakh, but it is not expressed. The story moves forward with Boishakh trying to protect the business from going into ruins by unwanted invaders and village politics.
Earthen Love
2013


