Rubaiyat Hossain

Rubaiyat Hossain (born 1981) is a Bangladeshi film director, writer, and producer. She made the films Meherjaan (2011), Under Construction (2015) and Made in Bangladesh (2019). Background and education Syeda Rubaiyat Hossain was born in 1981 to a Muslim family in Bangladesh. Inspired by the works of Satyajit Ray, Rubaiyat pursued her interest in cinema and completed a diploma in film direction at New York Film Academy in 2002. She has also completed a B. A. in women studies from Smith College, and an M. A. in South Asian studies from the University of Pennsylvania and M. A. in Cinema Studies from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in the United States. Her primary fields of interest are Bengali nationalism, formation of Bengali modernity and its correlation with female sexuality. Career Hossain's works reflect social realism and use a feminist lens to deconstruct the otherwise phallocentric institution of cinema.