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Also known as Kohinoor Akhter

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.

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