Native name ডলি আনোয়ার Name Dolly Anwar Full Name Dolly Ibrahim Parents Nilima Ibrahim | Occupation Actress Years active 1964 – 1991 | |
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Born July 1, 1948 ( 1948-07-01 ) Jessore, Bangladesh Resting place Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard, Mirpur Notable work Surjo Dighal BariDahanHulia Died July 3, 1991, Dhaka, Bangladesh Grandparents Kusum Kumari Devi, Prafulla Roy Chowdhury Similar Anju Ghosh, Laila Hasan, Dolly Johur | ||
Dolly Anwar (née Ibrahim; July 1, 1948 – July 3, 1991) was a Bangladeshi stage, television and film actress and writer and editor of Saatdin magazine. She was awarded Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress in 1979 for her role in the film Surjo Dighol Bari.
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Early life
Anwar was the daughter of Nilima Ibrahim, a political and feminist activist, and Mohammed Ibrahim, M.D. She was the former sister-in-law of film director and journalist Alamgir Kabir. She earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Bengali Literature from the University of Dhaka in the early 1970s.
Career
Anwar began her career on stage at the age of 13. At 16, she played one of the principal characters on Bangladesh Television's teleplay Aktala Dotala by Professor Munir Choudhury. She began acting in films in the late 1970s, collaborating most frequently with the directors Sheikh Niamat Ali and Mohiuddin Shakir. Her film debut was the 1980 award-winning Surjo Dighal Bari. She also acted in Dahan (1986) and a variety of documentaries. Due to her stance against the political regime in Bangladesh during the 1980s, she was often blacklisted and prevented from working as an actress. It was during this time that she became an editor and contributor to the weekly magazine Saatdin from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
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Personal life and death
Anwar married Rajiuddin Ahmed in 1966. Ahmed was a student leader and later became a politician. They had a son Rajib Ahmed Partho (born 1972). The couple got divorced in 1979. She then married Anwar Hossain, a photographer, and cinematographer.
Anwar committed suicide on 3 July 1991. After she was rushed to the hospital, suffering from severe stomach pains at her home in Dhaka. She was pronounced dead at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital later that night.