Ruhul Amin (film director)

Ruhul Amin, a UK based Bangladeshi film director, has made 13 films for BBC and Channel 4 TV. Most of them are documentaries and experimental dramas. Now he is making his epic Bengali film on the life of a rural Bengali folk poet who was around about hundred fifty years ago.

Ruhul is one of the prolific Asian filmmaker in Britain. In the beginning of 80s he came to Britain with his parents. 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.

Filmography

*Hason Raja - 2008: Mithun Chakraborty as Hason Raja, it’s still under production, Language is Bengali, and it’s a co-production of UK, India and Bangladesh. Music by: Bappi Lahiri. Release date 2008 middle. Shooting will take place both India and Bangladesh. The play back singers are: Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik and Kumar Sanu from India and from Bangladesh it’s the singers Mamtaz and Ratindranath Rai. Cd will be out in 2007, DVd will be out in 2008.
*Frozen Moments – 2000, Short film already released. It was for TV
*We Need You – 2000, Released for TV
*Megastars - 1998
*Raj Mistri - 1997
*New Eastenders - 1996
*Violent Earth - 1996
*Wicked Tiger - 1995
*Rhythms - 1994
*MovieWallah – 1993 Country Bangladesh Language Bengali
*A Kind of English - 1986 (TV) Feature Film
*Flame in My Heart - 1983
*Purbo London – 1983

Ruhul Amin Interview [http://www.maadhukari.com/misc/interview/ruhulamininterview.html]