Abul Khair was a Bangladeshi television and film actor. He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor four times for his roles in the films Dahan (1985), Rajlakshmi Srikanta (1987), Anya Jibon (1995), and Dukhai (1997).
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Career
Khair's acting career started in the mid-1950s. Later in life, when he again started performing on television, he acted in many of Humayun Ahmed's television dramas and the film drama serial Ei Shob Din Ratri. He later acted in Bohubrihi, Aaj Robibar, Ayomoy
Nokkhotrer Rat, and others.
Besides being an actor on television and movies, he also held several executive positions domestically and internationally as follows:
Director of Films, Ministry of Information of the then government of East Pakistan and later on government of Bangladesh during 1968 to 1976.
During that time he got permission from the Pakistan government to go to India to direct a documentary on now National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam (The Rebel Poet) in 1970.
He orchestrated and directed the 7 March Speech of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (the only copy was restored and saved by him during the war).
He also made a documentary on Bangladesh ,"This is Bangladesh", which was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival (1977)
Managing Director of FDC (Film Development Corporation) from 1973 to 1975
International Film Director, United Nations, New York City, United States from 1976 to 1980. In this capacity, he made many documentary movies on human habitat in Sri Lanka, Canada, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. He directed the documentary "The Big Village" for the UN, which is in the Bangladesh Film Archive as well as the UN film archive.
Works
Television
Ei Shob Din Ratri
Kothao Keu Nei
Bohubrihi
Aaj Robibar (1999)
Ayomoy
Nimful (1997)
Shobinoy Nibedon (1965)
Nokkhotrer Rat '(1997)