Ruhul Amin ( bn, রুহুল আমিন; born 1971) is a

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i-born British

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Early life

Amin was born in

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, and came to Britain with his parents in the early 1980s while he was a teenager. While he was at school, he made his first documentary-drama, ''Prubo London''. He attended the

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Career

In 1986, Amin made his first feature film for

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television entitled ''

A Kind of English ''A Kind of English'' is a 1986 British drama film, directed by Ruhul Amin and written by Paul Hallam. It stars Lalita Ahmed, Jamil Ali, Afroza Bulbul, Badsha Haq and Andrew Johnson. The film is about a Bengali family living in London. Cast * ...

''. Amin has made 15 films for the

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and Channel 4. Most of them are

documentaries A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...

and experimental

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

s. He is currently making an epic

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feature film ''

Hason Raja Dewan Hason Raja Chowdhury, or simply known as Hason Raja ( bn, হাসন রাজা; 21 December 1854 – 6 December 1922), was a Bengali mystic poet and songwriter from Sylhet, Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh). His unique style of mu ...

'' based on the based on the life and music of the folk poet, mystic philosopher and songwriter of the same name played by

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, produced by Galaxy Films between UK, India and Bangladesh. The film was funded by Amin's friends and the Bangladeshi community in England. Amin is known for creating sensitive, understated, poetic films centred on the life of the Bengali community in the

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Filmography

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* 1971 births Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Bangladeshi emigrants to England British people of Bangladeshi descent Film directors from London People from Sylhet District Alumni of the National Film and Television School {{UK-film-director-stub