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Sumita Devi

Acting

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.

Known For

Sangam
6.5

Sangam is a Pakistani Urdu film released in 1964, directed by Zahir Raihan starring Rosy Samad, Khalil, Haroon Rashid and Sumita Devi. This is the first full-length colour movie made in entire Pakistan. This was the fourth film by Zahir Raihan (1935-1972) who later went on to direct more films in Urdu and Bengali during the 1960s. Zahir Raihan became one of the most important filmmakers of East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh in 1971. Although Sangam was an Urdu film, but most of the cast, playback artistes and crew were from the Bengali-speaking Eastern province.

Sangam

1964
Devdas
3.5

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.

Devdas

1982
Chitra Nodir Pare
6.7

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.

Chitra Nodir Pare

1998
The Great Hero
N/A

A regular man steps into petty crimes and gets involved in a series of events that unveils love, morality, dilemma, and fate while he portrays as the 'Mohanayok' (great hero) of his own story.

The Great Hero

1984
Never Came
N/A

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

Never Came

1961
Behula
N/A

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.

Behula

1966
13 Number Feku Ostagar Lane
9.0

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.

13 Number Feku Ostagar Lane

1966
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10.0

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.

Phulkumar

2002
Ae Desh Tomar Amar
3.0

No description available.

Ae Desh Tomar Amar

1959
Jonmo Theke Jolchi
N/A

It's a 1981 Bangladeshi drama film about life of a singer

Jonmo Theke Jolchi

1981
Matir Pahar
N/A

Matir Pahar is a 1959 Bengali film. The film was directed by Mohiuddin Ahmad. This was the third film made in East Pakistan.

Matir Pahar

1959
Dossu Bonhur
N/A

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.

Dossu Bonhur

1976
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N/A

A man leaves the city and takes a job as a forest officer believing society, himself included, to have been unjust to his father.

Beiman

1974
Asiya
N/A

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.

Asiya

1957
The Glass Wall
N/A

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.

The Glass Wall

1963
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N/A

A girl from the slums happens to be the princess of a vast property.

The Terrorist

1976
Daughter of the Sun
9.0

A jobless imaginative artist finds his fantasies when a sculpture he creates comes to life every night.

Daughter of the Sun

1975
Alibaba
N/A

A Bengali-language drama directed by Nazrul Islam, starring Inam Ahmed, Sumita Devi, and Sirajul Islam.

Alibaba

1967
Sonar Kajol
N/A

No description available.

Sonar Kajol

1962
Apon Dulal
N/A

A Bengali-language film directed by Nazrul Islam, starring Nasima Khan, Azeem, and Inam Ahmed.

Apon Dulal

1966