Nazma Anwar
# Nazma Anwar

Nazma Anwar (c. 1941 – 14 December 2004) was a Bangladeshi film and television actress, and drama activist. She performed in Bengali films including Hajar Bachhor Dhore (2005), Dukhai (1997) Joyjatra (2004), Shonkhonil Karagar (1992), Chittagong: The Last Stopover (2000), Shankhonad (2004) and also in television drama plays including Iblish, Kothao Keu Nei, and Tahara.

## Early life

Anwar was born in 1941 in Munshiganj District in the-then British India. Her father was a professor of Arabic in the Government Haraganga College. She moved to Dhaka with her family when while she finished her sixth grade in school.

## Career

Anwar started her career as a theater activist by joined Dhaka Drama Circle in 1960s. In 1981, she joined in Aranyak Natyadal, a theater group in Bangladesh.

In 2001, she played in the tele drama Kariman Bewa (2001), based on the biography of freedom fighter Taramon Bibi.

## Personal life

Anwar had five children. Her daughter, Ishrat Nishat (d. 2020), was a theatre activist.

## Works

### Films

* Shonkhonil Karagar (1992)
* Dukhai (1997)
* Chittagong: The Last Stopover (2000)
* Joyjatra (2004)
* Shankhonad (2004)
* Hajar Bachhor Dhore (2005)
