Abdullah al Mamun (playwright)

Abdullah Al Mamun
আবদুল্লাহ আল মামুন
Born(1942-07-13)13 July 1942
Jamalpur, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died21 August 2008(2008-08-21) (aged 66)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
NationalityBangladeshi
EducationMA (history)
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka
Occupations
  • Film director
  • actor
  • playwright
Spouse
Farida Khatun
(m. 1984, died)
Awards

Abdullah Al Mamun (13 July 1942 – 21 August 2008) was a Bangladeshi playwright, actor, and filmmaker.[1] He earned the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1978 and the Ekushey Padak in 2000 from the Government of Bangladesh.[2] As a filmmaker, he won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director twice for the direction of the films Ekhoni Somoy (1980) and Dui Jibon (1988).[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Abdullah Al Mamun passes away". The Daily Star. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  2. ^ পুরস্কারপ্রাপ্তদের তালিকা [Winners list] (in Bengali). Bangla Academy. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  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. ^ "Abdullah Al Mamun". The Daily Star. 5 February 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Remembering Abdullah Al Mamun". The Daily Star. 12 July 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2019.