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Native name
  
ডলি আনোয়ার

Name
  
Dolly Anwar

Full Name
  
Dolly Ibrahim

Parents
  
Nilima Ibrahim

Occupation
  
Actress

Alma mater
  
University of Dhaka

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

Spouse(s)
  
Anwar Hossain (m. 1979; her death 1991)

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.

Awards

  • Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress (1979)
  • Bangladesh Journalists Association's Award for Best Actress(1979)
  • Photography award by the Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (1987)
  • 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.

    Filmography

    Actress
    1985
    Dahan as
    Lina
    1979
    Surja Dighal Bari as
    Jaigun

    References

    Dolly Anwar Wikipedia