Khan Ataur Rahman

Acting

Khan Ataur Rahman

Born 1928-12-11 · Singair, Manikganj, Bengal Presidency, British India [now Bangladesh]

Khan Ataur Rahman was a Bangladeshi film actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer, and singer, best known for his role in the Zahir Raihan film Jibon Theke Neya (1970). He received the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Screenplay for the films Sujon Sokhi and Danpite Chhele.

Acting credits

Jibon Theke Neya poster
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A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.

Jibon Theke Neya

1970

Never Came poster
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The emergence of the educated middle-class. Shawkat’s life as a bohemian artist perfectly illustrates the life of an artist in Dhaka during the 60s. When Shawkat’s father loses his job, and eventually dies, the reality of living in a capitalist society as an artist dawns on him

Never Came

1961

Matir Pahar poster
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Matir Pahar is a 1959 Bengali film. The film was directed by Mohiuddin Ahmad. This was the third film made in East Pakistan.

Matir Pahar

1959

Nawab Sirajuddaula poster
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The first movie based on the life of the last sovereign Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa and the historical events of the Battle of Palaashi was directed by Khan Ataur Rahman. Anwar Hossain played the role of the doomed Nawab. Khan Ataur Rahman and Anowara played other major roles in the movie.

Nawab Sirajuddaula

1967

When the Bell Rang poster
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A 12-year old schoolboy mistakenly gets locked in the school's washroom by the caretaker.

When the Bell Rang

1980

Day Shall Dawn poster
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Based on he daily lives of the fishermen of East Bengal.

Day Shall Dawn

1959

The Glass Wall poster
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The story is about a girl who grows up almost like an orphan in a joint family of two brothers and their families. She has lost her mother (a sister of the brothers) in childhood and her father is a habitual gambler with a bad luck. She develops romance with one of the two cousins in the house.

The Glass Wall

1963

Ae Desh Tomar Amar poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Ae Desh Tomar Amar

1959

Sujon Sokhi poster
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Set in rural Bangladesh, “Sujon Sokhi” is a romantic melodrama where the story starts with a feud between two brothers incited by the wife of the elder brother. The younger brother has to leave the house with the mother and his wife due to extreme misbehave of the elder couple.....

Sujon Sokhi

1975

Sat Bhai Chompa poster
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Based on a perennially popular Bengali folk tale, Sat Bhai Chompa has had many cinematic outings in both India and Bangladesh. This, the 1968 version directed by Dilip Shom, is one of the most delightful. A king has three wives. The two elder wives connive to throw the pregnant third wife out of the palace. The third wife gives birth to eight children - seven sons and a daughter. The enraged elder wives, with the help of a sorcerer, turn the seven sons into flowers. It is now up to the daughter to turn her brothers back into humans and regain their rightful place in the palace.

Sat Bhai Chompa

1968

Je Nodi Morupothay poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Je Nodi Morupothay

1961

Behind the camera