Sumita Devi
Also Known As: Hena Bhattacharya, Nilufar Begum
Biography: Nilufar Begum, better known by her stage name Sumita Devi, was a Bangladeshi actress. In 45 years of her career, she acted in around 200 films and 150 radio and television dramas. She was an artist at the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra in 1971.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manikganj District, Bengal Presidency, British India
Birthday: February 04, 1936
Deathday: January 06, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Glass Wall
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1963-05-04
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Dossu Bonhur
Overview: Following the death of his father, Dosyu Bonhur has taken the responsibility of the chief of their gang, and continues his father's fight against the oppressor, Zamindar.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1976-07-30
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Behula
Overview: Behula is a 1966 Bengali film directed by Zahir Raihan and stars Razzak and Shuchanda as lead pair. It was based on the Hindu mythology of Behula, who fights vehemently to goddess Manasa for her husband Lakhindar's life.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1966-10-28
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Never Came
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1961-11-24
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Asiya
Overview: The first film shot and developed in FDC (Film Development Corporation), Asiya was directed by Fateh Lohani. Focusing on the life of a village belle, the asset of the film was its music, composed by legendary folk artiste Abbasuddin Ahmed (Samar Das and Abdul Ahad also composed numbers for the movie after Abbasuddin's demise during the making of the film). Featuring Sumita Devi, Qazi Khaleque and Shaheed, the film received the prestigious President Award of Pakistan in 1961.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-26
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Matir Pahar
Overview: Matir Pahar is a 1959 Bengali film. The film was directed by Mohiuddin Ahmad. This was the third film made in East Pakistan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1959-08-28
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Ae Desh Tomar Amar
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1959-12-25
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Chitra Nodir Pare
Overview: After the partition of India in 1947, Shashikanta's family, like millions of other Hindu families of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), faced the dilemma of whether to migrate from the land in which they have been living for centuries. But Shashikanta Sengupta, an eccentric lawyer, stubbornly refuses to leave his motherland. Widower Shashikanta has two children, Minoti and Bidyut. Anuprava Devi is an affectionate old aunt who lives with the family. The family has a house in Narail, a small provincial town on the bank of the Chitra river. Some Muslim neighbors eye Shashaikanta's house. But the family refuse to migrate. Shashikanta's children Minoti and Bidyut are friends with the neighboring Muslim children- Badal, Salma and Nazma. Minoti and Badal become more than friends. The children grow up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1998-02-07
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Daughter of the Sun
Overview: A jobless imaginative artist finds his fantasies when a sculpture he creates comes to life every night.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Terrorist
Overview: A girl from the slums happens to be the princess of a vast property.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime Action
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1976-08-06
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Beiman
Overview: A man leaves the city and takes a job as a forest officer believing society, himself included, to have been unjust to his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1974-12-31
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13 Number Feku Ostagar Lane
Overview: In a home, hassle was a daily routine between homeowners and lodgers. The lodgers & their servant was determined that they wouldn't pay their rent. Both of them separately called in their brother & sister to rise courage in quarrel.
Genres: Family
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Jonmo Theke Jolchi
Overview: It's a 1981 Bangladeshi drama film about life of a singer
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1981-12-11
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Phulkumar
Overview: A boy orphaned at birth grows up making his flower garden, trancing a flower fairy of that garden as his illusioned mother. Like a fresh flower, he scents the world inside him apart from the realities of society. But when his flower is plucked eventually by the force of his fate, he discovers friendship, love, passion and finally hatred that drowns him, tearing his petals, under the water.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-12
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The Prince
Overview: It's a 1985 Bangladeshi movie about International Crime and so on
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: bn
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Devdas
Overview: Devdas is a Bengali-language film based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel Devdas. It is the first Bangladeshi version of the story and the first colour film version in Bangladesh. It was the first of two versions directed by Chashi Nazrul Islam.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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