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Sheikh Niamat Ali

Sheikh Niamat Ali

Bangladeshi film director

Sheikh Niamat Ali (30 April 1940 – 24 November 2003)[1] was a Bangladeshi film director.[2] He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director in 1979, 1985, and 1995 for all the three feature films he ever made - Surja Dighal Bari, Dahan, and Anyajiban respectively.[1][3]

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Career

In 1977, Ali and his co-director Masihuddin Shaker started shooting the film Surja Dighal Bari. The film was based on a novel by Abu Ishaque about the rural people in the 1950s. It won five international awards, including the Mannheim Film Festival and the Portugal Film Society.[4] It was the first film made with a Bangladesh government grant.[1]

Filmography

Awards

  • Chalachchitram Award 2004[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Sabbir Chowdhury (December 11, 2003). "Homage to Salahuddin and Sheikh Niamat Ali, filmmakers : Bangladesh loses two great exponents of film art". The Daily Star. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Sheikh Niamat Ali". The Daily Star. November 24, 2007. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
  3. [3]
    জাতীয় চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার প্রাপ্তদের নামের তালিকা (১৯৭৫-২০১২) [List of the winners of National Film Awards (1975-2012)]. Government of Bangladesh (in Bengali). Bangladesh Film Development Corporation. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Did you know?". The Daily Star. June 13, 2005. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
  5. [5]
    Jamil Mahmud (November 24, 2007). "Tanvir Mokammel receives 'Chalachchitram Padak'". The Daily Star. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
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