Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winner noted filmmaker Chashi Nazrul Islam has passed away on Sunday morning. He was 73.
He had been suffering from liver cancer for a long time.
Nazrul breathed his last around 6am at Labaid Specialised Hospital in the capital, according to private TV channels' report.
Nazrul began his career in a radio in 1965. He directed and voiced popular radio dramas like "Ramer Sumoti" (1965), "Socrates" (1966), "Sokhina Birongona" (1974) etc.
He started his career in visual media in 1964 in television.
Nazrul participated in the 1971 Liberation War. After independence, he made the first film on liberation war "Ora Egaro Jon".
