Ruhul Amin (film director)

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Ruhul Amin
Born Sylhet, Bangladesh
Nationality British
Ethnicity Bangladeshi
Alma mater National Film and Television School
Occupation Film director
Years active 1983-present
Religion Islam

Ruhul Amin (Bengali: রুহুল আমিন) is a British film director[1] of Bangladeshi origin.

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[edit] Biography

Ruhul is one of the prolific Asian filmmaker in Britain. He has made 13 films for the BBC and Channel 4. Most of them are documentaries and experimental dramas. He is currently making an epic Bengali film on the life of a rural Bengali folk poet who was around about hundred fifty years ago.

In the beginning of the 1980s Ruhul came to Britain with his parents from Sylhet, Bangladesh. Within a year while he was at school he made his first doc-drama Prubo London. Since then he joined British film Industry and worked as an assistant. Later he attended National Film and Television School. In 1986, he made his first feature film for Channel 4 Television entitled A Kind of English. The film was shown in the festival around the world and earned a critical acclaim. The film was compared with early work of De Sica and Satyajit Ray.

[edit] Filmography

Year Title Notes
1983 Purbo London
1983 Flame in My Heart
1986 A Kind of English (TV) Feature Film
1993 MovieWallah Bangladeshi Bengali language film
1994 Rhythms
1995 Wicked Tiger
1996 Violent Earth
1996 New Eastenders
1997 Raj Mistri
1998 Megastars
2000 We Need You Released for TV
2000 Frozen Moments Short film already released. It was for TV
2009 Hason Raja Mithun Chakraborty as Hason Raja, Galaxy Films is currently working on the pre-production of a major feature based film on the life and music of Hason Raja, a mystic poet and singer. Release date 2009. Hason Raja is a co-production between UK, India and Bangladesh. Music by: Bappi Lahiri. The play back singers are: Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu, Shaan, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Bappi Lahiri from India and from Bangladesh it’s the singers Pantha Kanai, and new discovery 2 girl from Sylhet Onima and Opi. 2009 Scent of Earth Feature film (UK) in development

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Ali, Arif (1988). Third World impact. Hansib Pub.. p. 80. ISBN 9781870518048. http://books.google.com/books?ei=xqvNTIKcDYimsQOJ4uSQDg&ct=result&id=OV1nAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22rahul+amin%22+film&q=%22rahul+amin%22#search_anchor. Retrieved 31 October 2010. 

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Ruhul Amin Interview[1][dead link]


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