Ehtesham, a film director known as Captain Ehtesham, first became a film cinema distributor in 1950 and began his first film Ei Desh Tomar Amar even before 1956.
In 1956 he began his first film, Ei Desh Tomar Amar ("This country is yours and mine"), which marked the first film acting appearance for both Subhash Dutta and Shabnam. 
