Bobita
Birthday: 1953-07-30
Place of Birth: Bagerhat, East Pakistan, Pakistan
Biography: Farida Akhtar Poppy, known by her stage name Babita, is a Bangladeshi film actress. She is best known for her performance in Satyajit Ray's Distant Thunder, a novel adaptation about the Bengal famine of 1943, which won the Golden Bear prize at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1973. She was active in the 1970s through 1990s as an actress in Bangladeshi films. She acted in 275 films. After winning the National Film Award in 1975, she won three consecutive best actress prizes. She won Best Actor in 1986, Best Producer in 1997 and Best Supporting Actress Award twice in 2002 and 2012. In addition, she was awarded the lifetime achievement award of the National Film Award in the year 2016. In 2023, Bob Dubey, the mayor of Richardson, a city in North Texas, officially declared August 5 as "Babita Day" in honor of her.
Movies
Khodar Pore Ma
A boy gets separated from his mother when he was quite young. Will they reunite?...
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Lathial
Lathial (Bengali: লাঠিয়াল) is a Bangladeshi film directed by Narayan Ghosh Mita. The film is the fi...
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Madam Fuli
An illiterate rural Bangladeshi girl changes herself into a modern and urban one to get the right of...
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Tin konna
Three siblings get separated at early age when the baddies hit the daddy, one grows up to be a cop, ...
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Quiet Flows the Meghna
A Delhi girl comes to her aunt's house, where she hears the reality of Bangladesh's independent stor...
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Distant Thunder
Gangacharan is the new Brahmin of a village, where he assumes various duties: teaching, organizing r...
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Affliction
Director: Sheikh Niamat Ali Writers: Sheikh Niamat Ali (dialogue), Sheikh Niamat Ali (screenplay) |...
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Purnodoirgho Prem Kahini
The film is about Joy (Shakib Khan) who is engaged to his cousin Mithu(Mimo). But he promises his gr...
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Abar Tora Manush Ho
Abar Tora Manush Ho is a 1973 Bangladeshi film starring Maruf Ahmed, Bobita, Farooque and Raisul Isl...
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Alor Michil
Alor Michil is a 1974 Bangladeshi patriotic film which focuses on the independence movement of 1971....
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Bosundhora
Bosundhora is a 1977 Bengali-language Bangladeshi film directed by Subhash Dutta. The film was based...
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Taka Ana Pai
A lawyer, son of a local decorator wedding cook, unwillingly got married with a rich father's goofy ...
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In Flames of Sunrise
During the war of independence of Bangladesh, a number of women was victimized by Pakistani Military...
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The Endless Trail
A brilliant film made by Amjad Hossain on the oppressed have-nots of rural Bangladesh, Golapi Akhon ...
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And She Was Beautiful
Sundori is a young woman from a poor family in a village governed by a ruthless zamindar....
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Dipu Number Two
An adventure story for young boys, Dipu Number Two is the second film of a talented director from Ba...
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The Insects
1996 Bangladeshi film produced by Bobita and directed by Akhtaruzzaman. Based on Selina Hossain's 19...
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Jibon Songsar
Jibon Sansar is a 1996 Bangladeshi romantic film written and directed by Zakir Hossain Raju. It is t...
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