Razzak at a glance

Name: Abdur Razzak

Title: Nayak Raj [Ahmed Zaman Chowdhury, editor of now-defunct Chitrali confered it]

Birth: 23 January, 1942

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Father: Akbar Hossain

Mother: Nisarennusa

Wife: Khairunnesa [known as Lokkhi]

Children: Bapparaj [Rezaul Karim], Nasrin Pasha Shampa, Rowshan Hossain Bappi, Afreen Alam Moina, and, Khalid Hossain Samrat

Profession: Actor, producer, and director

First acting: In a play, ‘Bidrohi’, staged when he was a student class VII in Khanpur High School, Kolkata

Entry to cinema: Made his first appearance in a film, ‘Ratan Lal Bangalee’ in Kolkata.

Migrating to Dhaka: Hindu-Muslim riot which broke out in 1964 forced Razzak, and his family to migrate to Dhaka

First breakthrough: Zahir Raihan’s ‘Behula’ in 1966

First actress: Shuchanda

Last film as protagonist: ‘Malamati’ with Nutan in 1990

Famous films: ‘Etotuku Asha’, ‘Neel Akasher Niche’, ‘Jibon Theke Neya’, ‘Nacher Putul’, ‘Pitchdhala Path’, ‘Abirbhab’, ‘Dwip Nebhe Nai’, ‘Taka Ana Pai’, ‘Rangbaj’, ‘Alor Michhil’, ‘Oshikkhito’, ‘Chhutir Ghonta’, ‘Chandranath’, ‘Shubhoda’, and ‘Rajlokkhi Shreekanto’.

Last film: ‘Kartoos’ in 2014

Number of films: Around 300 in Bangla

Awards: Won National Award for five times, Meril-Prothom Alo Lifetime Achievement Award (2014), and BACHSAS (Bangladesh Chalachitra Sangbadik Samity) Lifetime Achievement Award (2009)