Fazlur Rahman Babu (born July 14, 1960) is a Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

i actor

Actor

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 and singer. Also known simply as Babu, he has acted in more than one hundred telenovela

Telenovela

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s, in addition to appearing in films and several television advertisement

Television advertisement

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Early life

He was born in the Faridpur District

Faridpur District

Faridpur is a district in central Bangladesh. It is a part of the Dhaka Division. Faridpur District has a population of over 1.7 million people and is situated on the banks of the Padma river . It is bordered by Madaripur, Narail, Rajbari, Magura, Shariatpur, Gopalgonj, Dhaka and Manikganj...

 of Bangladesh and spent most of his childhood there. His family had moved there following his father's job transfer.

Acting and banking

He started his acting career in 1978 when he joined the theatre group Baishakhi Natya Ghosthi in Faridpur. That same year, Babu acted for first time in a national drama festival. Meanwhile, he joined the Agrani Bank

Agrani Bank

Agrani Bank is a state-owned commercial bank of Bangladesh established in 1972 . Its headquarter is situated at Motijheel in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh....

 and, in 1983, transferred his banking job to Dhaka

Dhaka

Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...

, the capital of Bangladesh, where he also joined Mamunur Rashid

Mamunur Rashid

Mamunur Rashid is one of the pioneering theatre activists in Bangladesh. He is the chief secretary of leading theatre group Aranyak which plays crucial roles in creating common people aware about their rights through his plays. He was born on 29 February in 1948 in the village Paikora under Kalhati...

's Aranyak Natyadal theatre group. Some of his performances in this theatre group include Nankar Pala, Pathar and Moyur Shinghashan.

He started his television acting career in Kazi Nazrul Islam

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Kazi Nazrul Islam , sobriquet Bidrohi Kobi, was a Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi...

’s soap opera

Soap opera

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 Mrittu Khuda (1991), produced by Abu Zafar Siddiqui, on Bangladesh Television

Bangladesh Television

Bangladesh Television , also known by the acronym BTV, is the state-owned Television network in Bangladesh. It started broadcasting as Pakistan Television in what was then East Pakistan on 25 December 1964. It was renamed Bangladesh Television after the independence in 1971. Broadcasts in full...

 (BTV). However, it was his role of Poran Majhi in Rashid's television drama Itikatha (1991) that secured him further roles in dramas such as Shundari and Danab. Babu also acted with Bengali film Daruchini Dip

Daruchini Dip

Daruchini Dip also is a Bangladeshi Bengali language film. It was released in 2007 throughout Bangladesh. The film is based on the Bangladeshi novelist and film maker Humayun Ahmed’s popular novel of the same name. It was directed: by most popular TV actor Toukir Ahmed...

 directed by Toukir Ahmed

Toukir Ahmed

Toukir Ahmed is a popular Bangladeshi actor who started his career in early 1980s. His first drama broadscasted on Bangladesh Television became very popular at that time because of its strong position against drug addiction problem among youngsters of the country.-Career:Successes of Toukir...

 while Humayun Ahmed

Humayun Ahmed

Humayun Ahmed is a Bangladeshi author, dramatist and director of film and television. He broke through since the publication of his first novel, Nandita Naraké...

 was Story, Dialogue and Scriptwriter.

Babu has become popular for his humorous characters but his early career in stage dramas like Danab and Jay Jayanti was in serious roles.

Babu continued to work for television and theatre simultaneously until 2000 when he stopped theatre work as television took nearly twenty-five days per month. Babu made his theatrical film début with Abdullah Al Mamun’s Bihanga between 2000 and 2001.

Singer

Babu emerged as a singer when he performed two songs in the film Monpura. Babu published his first solo music album

Album

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Indubala (2009). He also sang four songs on the mixed album Monchor (2008)