Shuchanda
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Kohinoor Akhter (known by her stage name Shuchanda) is a Bangladeshi film actress and director. She started her career in the mid 1960s and acted in about 100 movies. She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director for the film Hajar Bachhor Dhore (2005) and Bangladesh National Film Award for Lifetime Achievement (2019).
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- Person.name
- Shuchanda
- Person.native_name
- সুচন্দা
- Person.native_name_lang
- bn
- Person.image
- Shuchanda in BFDC (cropped).jpg
- Person.caption
- Actress Suchanda is speaking in Dhaka on the relief collection program for flood victims in 2024
- Person.birth_name
- Kohinoor Akhter
- Person.birth_place
- Jashore, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
- Person.years_active
- 1965-present
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- Suchanda Cox's Bazar in 2014.jpg
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- name in native language
- সুচন্দা
- date of birth
- 1952-00-00
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- Commons category
- Shuchanda
- birth name
- কোহিনূর আক্তার
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Kohinoor Akhter (known by her stage name Shuchanda) is a Bangladeshi film actress and director. She started her career in the mid 1960s and acted in about 100 movies. She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director for the film Hajar Bachhor Dhore (2005) and Bangladesh National Film Award for Lifetime Achievement (2019).
==Career== Shuchanda debuted in acting with the film Kagojer Nouka (1966), directed by Subhash Dutta. She acted in films like "Behula" (1966), "Shuorani Duorani" (1968) and "Jibon Theke Neya" (1970) — directed by her future husband Zahir Raihan.