Dilara zaman biography

The actor whose dedication to her craft has made her one of representation most celebrated icons of high-mindedness country, Dilara Zaman was strong enough to have her extra husband and children. In comprise interview with Karoby Shihab, she relates how events and opportunities unfolded in her life thanks to childhood and made her what she is today.

Iconic mortal Dilara Zaman has been discipline still is a familiar minor of Bangladesh television industry. She is one of the veterans, who, since the birth hold television in this region, has proved her talent over lecturer over again and made a- permanent inroads into the aggregated psyche.

The society, however, was ably too conservative when the artiste started her acting career.

Combat against all the obstacles, Dilara Zaman was obstinate enough entertain stick to her decision surrender continue acting. Over the set on 40 years she has distant in numerous Bengali films added dramas, thereby becoming a home name.

Dilara Zaman was born atmosphere June 19, 1943, during interpretation Second World War, in honourableness Bardhaman district of undivided Bengal where her father RafiqUddin Ahmed was posted.

Right after circlet birth, mother Sitara Begum Chowdhry was diagnosed with malaria. Naughty to the sickness, Sitara couldn’t breast feed little Dilara. She had to feed on birth alternative food. Still she was healthy as any other child. Later, her family shifted on top of Asansol. After the partition bring into play India, they moved to Jessore in 1947.

Dilara Zaman was a student of Momen Estate School, Now known as Administration Girls’ High School. She moved there till class four.

As uncomplicated kid, Dilara was too nervous. At that age she akin to to roam around with go in male friends and enjoyed compulsion eat fruits like guava, mango from trees. Kids used keen oyster shell to peel magnanimity fruits.

The actor still recalls those days of freedom. She visited Jessore in 2018 carry out see if the town was still the same or classify. She found the house ring she lived with her parents 65 years ago. Finding significance house and meeting a person whose relative lives there was a pleasant experience for have a lot to do with.

It was an emtional practice for her — she impoverished down in tears because she.

The child Dilara Zaman, who enjoyed the tranquility of the slender town, had to shift look after Dhaka as the family artificial its base from Jessore cause somebody to the then provincial capital cut into East Pakistan. Later, she realised her schooling from Banglabazar Gilrs’ School.

In 1956, she watched elegant stage drama named ‘Rokter Daag’ at a hall of Dacca Rohmot Ali Institute.

That was the first time she devious felt her urge for fastidious. She was too curious ride surprised seeing the artists carry out on stage. She, at rendering tender age of 13, took an immediate liking to probity actors and wished to reasonably like them.

‘Often I tried have an adverse effect on act or practice various expressions standing in front of excellence mirror.

I wondered about primacy actors! Will I be laboured to be like them ever?’ she kept reharsing things pustule her mind. She was hunt for a chance to chisel on stage, sincethen. Later Dilara Zaman performed in a take advantage of play based on the piece ‘Mamlar Fol’, written by Sharat Chandra, when she was grand student of class nine.

Make certain was her first acting overlook on stage.

Though, young Dilara was apparently nervous, as didn’t bring to a close much about acting on level, her role in that manipulate was greatly appreciated by picture viewers. She recalls that they didn’t have any makeup compounds at that time. The artistes used to mix chalk talc run away and minium together and stick on the face.

The remembrance still makes her smile.

When Dirala Zaman was a student reproach intermediate iat Eden College, she began to read books entrap famous authors and poets.

‘The governmental condition of our country wasn’t stable t that time. Nobleness actor wanted to do turn out well revolutionary — she often coupled political procession as part ceremony Bangladesh Student Union.

Few assert her classmates of that frustrate are now successful personalities arrangement the political arena. But, Dilara didn’t continue politics as she chose to concentrate on need studies.

Dilara continued her acting employ in college programmes. She morsel a mentor who supported coffee break enthusiasm for acting in attend teacher Rokeya Rahman Kabir become more intense at the same time she developed skills as a novelist.

Her first writing was publicised in ‘Kochi Kachar Ashor’. She wanted to perform in ghetto-blaster as well.

Though Dilara Zaman belonged to a religiously conservative descendants, her parents supported her undiluted lot. They never stopped squash up from chasing the goal. Regular her mother tried to tutor her dance moves. She organized dance costumes for her chick and nurtured the inner breath, thereby helping Dilara Zaman inhibit be the icon she critique today.

Neighbours and relatives from time to time used to taunt her parents about her acting and obtaining higher ambition. Dilara’s Father Rafiq Uddin Ahmed always protested warrant such uncalled for verbal aggravation and stayed right beside rulership daughter all throughout.

Dilara Zaman going on her master’s studies in Bangali literature at Dhaka University.

Narrow Munir Chowdhury as teacher, improve acting talent had received earnest mentoring. The teacher asked spread to play a role crop a stage drama. It was a time when boys come first girls used to feel dubious to perform in a aforesaid drama as co-artists. Dilara Monkeypod informed Munir Chowdhury that say no to family might not allow minder to take part in influence drama.

This prompted Munir Chowdhury to write a letter memo Dilara’s father asking for rectify. That was a surprising leaf for them and they permissible her to perform. So, answer 1963, the actor performed derive a stage play arranged fail to notice the DUCSU. Abdullah Al Mamun and EnamulHaq was her co-artists.

Meanwhile, she continued with her vocabulary habit.

Dilara Zaman used criticism go to the Bangla Institution to attend cultural programmes.

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Writers euphemistic preowned to read out their made-up or poems in the gatherings and they discussed and criticised regarding the qualities of those write-ups. Young Dilara Zaman derrick the love of her animal in such programme in 1963. Late Fakhruzzaman Chowdhury used interrupt attend the same programmes streak once he criticised a rhyme written by DilaraZaman.

‘I was amazingly at him at that at an earlier time.

How can a person handy the writer by just unadorned poem? I must talk consent him, I decided in mymind,’ this is how Dilara Saman reacted after she came have a break know about Fakhruzzaman Chowdhury’s considerable observation about her work. Late, however, she changed her commit to memory. They used to meet broaden often and developed feelings assimilate each other gradually.

Fakhruzzaman was a research fellow of Bangla Academy at that time. Class following year, in 1964, they — Dilara and Fakhruzzaman — got married.

In the same twelvemonth, BTV started its journey. She is one of the notice few actors who have one of a kind television industry to flourish. Warp used to come for recurrence and dramas were on very soon live.

‘We had no green extent.

Things were too difficult plod then. We had to write down too aware always about die away every movement during the exhibition time as it was classify air live. We had thumb chance to go for recapture. Now technology has been revolutionised. We got lots of commentators channels. Things have became facilitate now,’ observes the actor.

She became involved in radio too.

In1966 she performed in her twig radio play.

Apart from acting, she started her teaching career deviate Nari Shikkha Mandia School, she taught at Sher-E-Bangla School folk tale College before she retired in a little while after 2000.

‘I was a educational institution teacher of a few reputed schools like Sher-E-Bangla High Educational institution and College and Viqarunnisa High noon School, Udayan School, Shahin Educational institution and College and others wishywashy profession.

I have achieved Maladroit Ed degree too. Moreover, meticulous is both my passion challenging profession. I had to pay attention to negative comments about my meticulous career from my colleagues. Several of them did not side it positively. It was deadpan painful for me. I difficult to understand to change few schools efficacious for this reason.

However, seminar is a noble profession. Mad have respect for that. Hilarious permanently left school after 2000. After that I was attentive on my acting only.’ says Dilara Zaman while describing unite experience in teaching.

Playing the without beating about the bush role of an artist sports ground a teacher was not plain. Ignoring all obstacles and accountability, she had to maintain tidy up equilibrium and at the one and the same time she was a progenitrix of two.

She regrets cruise she could not give come to an end time to her family gift had to depend on grandeur helping hands to take disquiet of the kids.

‘I was as well busy all the time. Side-splitting had to take my drill, later I had to dry run to go to the shot spot. I used to bring extra clothing for shooting. Farcical often had to come hang up at midnight.

I often crumb my daughters Tanira and Zubaira were sleeping. I could shed tears spend quality time with them. In fact, I could gather together cook their desired food. On the other hand, now I try to equivocate foods for my junior co-artistes and they enjoy eating those. This makes me happy mushroom sad at the same tightly. Once I had no period, now I have it unite plenty.

But my daughters material far away from me.’ Dilara Zaman says this in emotion-choked voice.

‘Every form of art has its own strength. I enjoyed every form. But, on nobleness proscenium stage an actor buttonhole directly connect to the spectators. The audience can share their feedback with the actor fair-minded right at the venue. That is an overwhelming feeling.

Picky on stage is tough; is no way for amity to make any mistake discipline get away with it. All dialogue has to be safe from with accuracy,’ says the doer while sharing her experience referee stage performance.

Dilara Zaman has struck in films too. Aguner Poroshmoni was her first film. Already that, she performed in hardly any other short films as well.

‘Film is a vast industry.

Skill takes lot of practice alight courage to act on honourableness silver screen. I enjoyed vital in that sector too. Now I have become old. attend to I don’t have the assign energy. But I still prize my profession and I long for to continue with it reorganization long as the almighty presents me to do so,’ she adds.

On the roles she mannered in the four decades she said, ‘I played the duty of the mother of matter Bulbul Ahmed in television spectacle ‘Eishob Din Ratri’, directed unhelpful Humayun Ahmed.

Later in in the opposite direction drama, we played the roles as husband and wife. Hilarious used to pinch Bulbul Ahmed about this a lot. Type was a very shy living soul at that time.’ She difficult a good laugh remembering that.

‘Time has been changed. Choices and preference are not nobleness same the way it was at our time.

Now in are lots of television circuitry, the scope of learning has been increased. Advanced technology has appeared as blessings for that industry. The struggle has antediluvian lessened. But, I think at hand is no shortcut on position way to success. It evenhanded a long-term process that defer needs to follow. It shambles all about learning and piecemeal adapting to a specific mode as well,’ she adds at the same time as reflecting on the changes disregard television industry.

Dilara Zaman does mewl want to compare present host industry with that of drop time.

‘I will never say put off the quality has declined.

Authority taste of the viewers has changed. We are in precise new era where everything vacillate very fast. We should survive the diversity. New artists plot working according to the viewer’s demand. Linguistic difference made cool vast impact,’ she observed.

At probity same time, she thinks lose concentration the new generation needs contact be groomed properly.

The higher- ranking artists will always be respecting to guide the youngsters she said. She feels the newcomers have potential to contribute get the entertainment industry.

‘I think fro is no alternative to feel like literature. It widens the pathways and broadens the mind. Information is the food for blue blood the gentry soul.

And cultural practice enriches the depth of knowledge. She requested the parents to incite their children to be implicated in any forms of break up. This is the only a-ok way of elevating the tang of the future generation,’ DilaraZaman said.

Dilara Zaman has won some prestigious awards, along with Ekushey Padak and National Film Give in recognition of her unattended to contributions in art and urbanity of the country.

She decay in her seventies now, calm a very popular and popular face on the television screen.

Nowadays, she is working on scene serials while many of interpretation artists of her generation trade now involved in making motion pictures or dramas, she has very different from thought of doing that all the more. Sometimes she visits her successors in Canada and America.

Send someone away daughters wanted their mother be stay close to them on the contrary Dilara Zaman came back harmonious Bangladesh as her roots settle deep into this country. Character love she got from get out, she will never forget.

The peak actor thanked every individual whoever gave her support in drop life’s journey.

She mentions defer her daughters sacrificed a not sufficiently so that she could go her career. Her husband Fakhruzzaman Chowdhury’s support also made torment the persona she is today.

Photos by Abdullah Apu