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Animesh Aich

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Animesh Aich
Aich in 2018
Born8 February [year missing]
NationalityBangladeshi
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • Director
  • Actor
  • Writer
Years active2002–present
Known for
PartnerAshna Habib Bhabna (2018–present)[1]

Animesh Aich (born 8 February [year missing])[2] is a Bangladeshi filmmaker, director, actor and writer. He has directed four films and several television dramas, and is a recipient of one National and two Meril-Prothom Alo awards.

Personal life

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Animesh Aich celebrates his birthday on February 8.[2] He has a younger brother, named Anup Aich.[3] Animesh studied sculpting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka.[4]

Animesh has been dating actress Ashna Habib Bhabna since late 2010s.[1][5][6]

Career

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Aich joined an advertising company as a copy writer.[7] Aich and some other contemporary directors such as Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Tarek Shahriar, Nurul Alam Atique were involved with Jolchobi.[7] Later he joined as an associate director in Cycle er Dana.[7] He debuted in directing through a television drama named Kufa in 2002, for which he won the Meril-Prothom Alo Critics Choice award.[4][8] In 2004, he won another Meril-Prothom Alo award for directing the television drama Chor Eshe Bhul Korechilo.[7]

In 2011, Aich co-directed the liberation war film Guerrilla (2011), starring Jaya Ahsan and Ferdous Ahmed. It became a major success, earning ten National Film awards, including Best Art Director for Aich.[9][10] Aich's next venture was the psychological thriller Zero Degree (2015), again starring Ahsan, along with Mahfuz Ahmed. The film was highly anticipated because of Aich's previous success, but critics were disappointed with his work.[11][12][4] His subsequent release Voyongkor Sundor (2017) also opened to a negative reception.[13][14][15]

Aich first appeared as an actor in Lalon (2004) and Runaway (2012).[16] In 2018, he played a supporting role in Anam Biswas's psychological thriller Debi, as the husband of Ahsan's character.[16][10] Based on Humayun Ahmed's novel of the same name, the film was well-received by critics and became a box-office success.[17]

The web film Maya, directed by Aich, was released in 2024 on the steaming platform Deepto Play. Maya is based on Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's supernatural novel of the same name.[18]

Awards

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Meril-Prothom Alo awards

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  • Best Director Critics' Choices Award, for Kufa (2002)[4]
  • Best Director Award (Drama), for Chor Eshe Bhul Korechilo (2004)[8]

National Film Awards

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  • Best Art Director, for Guerrilla (2011)[9]

Works

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Film (as director)

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Film (as actor)

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Telefilm

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  • Chorer Master (2021)

Web series

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  • Beauty and the Bullet (2019)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Bhabna doesn't know when she'll marry Animesh". Prothom Alo. 27 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Animesh Aich celebrates grand birthday party". Dhaka Tribune. 8 February 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  3. ^ Reeti, Sadia Khalid (29 January 2019). "Anup Aich: From films to books and books to films". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d "Animesh Aich". The Daily Star. 14 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Animesh-Habib to marry soon!". Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  6. ^ "অনিমেষ বললো, একদম ঢং কইরো না: ভাবনা". Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). 14 February 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d Islam, Mohammad Zahidul (31 May 2014). "Ten Things You Didn't Know about Animesh Aich". The Daily Star.
  8. ^ a b "Animesh Aich". animeshaich.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015.
  9. ^ a b "Guerrilla bags 10 National Film Awards". The Daily Star. 17 March 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  10. ^ a b "Animesh Aich awaits a career landmark". The Daily Star. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Zero Degree: Few Flaws Kill a Macabre Treat!". Dhaka Courier. 23 February 2015. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  12. ^ Abdullah Al Amin (Rubel) (28 February 2015). "Movie Review: Zero Degree (2015)". The Daily Star. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  13. ^ "Bhoyonkor Sundor and Controversy Thereafter; How Much Justified?". The Daily Star. 19 August 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  14. ^ "Parambrata, Bhabna on board for Animesh Aich's latest". Dhaka Tribune. 24 April 2015.
  15. ^ "'I stopped reading newspapers after Voyangkor Sundor'". Dhaka Tribune. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  16. ^ a b "Director Animesh acts in film". New Age. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  17. ^ Raihan, Siam (20 October 2018). "Debi is worth the hype". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  18. ^ a b Shazu, Shah Alam (29 March 2024). "Animesh Aich's 'Maya' to stream on OTT this Pohela Baishakh". The Daily Star. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
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