Movies: Anwar Hossain

An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Mus...

Rajmohan remains in Pakistan at the time of partition and sells Maqbool a giant bed, which upsets the local Muslims....

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 ...

A Delhi girl comes to her aunt's house, where she hears the reality of Bangladesh's independent story....

A hospital, a few families and a few people fighting for survival. The fight becomes more difficult when some extremists plan a devastating attack. Amidst the rubble one stands up, building a fortress of resistance. But will he be the hero of war? Or...

Alor Michil is a 1974 Bangladeshi patriotic film which focuses on the independence movement of 1971. Written and directed by Narayan Ghosh Mita, it stars Abdur Razzak, Babita, Faruk and Anwar Hussain in lead roles. It has been selected for preservati...

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....

The story starts about a war commander's fighting against the Razakar and East Pakistani Army in the time of the liberation war, Bangladesh. After the death of the commander, his elder brother becomes Shipahi to protect the mother nation....

A love story between Rahim, Rupban and Tajel. Rupban gets married to a 12 days old Rahim when she is 12 years. Once he grows up, he is unable to consider Rupban as his wife and falls in love with Tajel...

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 c...

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 S...

Rangbaaz introduced the idea of an "anti-hero" to Bangladeshi cinema....

Sohail Chowdhury, a rich psychopathic womaniser, gets married to Asha, a beautiful but naive village belle, after coercing her father to agree to the alliance and tortures her in the name of love. Asha changes her name to Diana and goes to Bangkok af...

A son takes revenge of the insult of his mother by his uncle and grandmother....

Abirbhab is a 1968 East Bengali film starring Razzak, Kabari and Anwar Hossain in lead roles. Subhash Dutta directed the film....

During the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh, in a remote village, a landlord collaborated with the Pakistani army. After the death of his brother, he married his sister-in-law who had a young son. A teacher in the village, with a widowed daughter, t...

Sundori is a young woman from a poor family in a village governed by a ruthless zamindar....

Poor oil miller decides to use his daughter-in-law to spin the treadle due to lack of ox....

A brilliant film made by Amjad Hossain on the oppressed have-nots of rural Bangladesh, Golapi Akhon Train-e, enjoyed a phenomenal success. The movie showcasing talented actors Rowshan Jamil, Bobita, and Anowara also brought to attention the issue of ...

It's between a family drama movie....