Bangladesh’s Nusrat Imrose Tisha Talks ‘Mujib,’ Future Projects at Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)

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Naman Ramachandran Top Bangladeshi actor Nusrat Imrose Tisha is in Cannes to promote her new film “Mujib: The Making of a Nation.” A trailer for the film, a biopic of the late Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was unveiled at the Cannes Film Market.Popularly known as Bangabandhu (friend of Bengal), Rahman was one of the founders of the Awami League party and led the movement for political autonomy for East Pakistan and the subsequent formation of independent Bangladesh in 1971.

He served as the first president and then the first prime minister of Bangladesh until he, his wife and sons were assassinated in an army coup in 1975.

His daughter Sheikh Hasina is the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Arifin Shuvoo, best actor winner at the Bangladesh National Film Awards for “Dhaka Attack,” plays Rahman.

Tisha plays his wife Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib.“Everyone knows about Bangabandhu, but many people don’t know about Fazilatunnesa,” Tisha tells Variety. “As the saying goes, behind every successful man there is a woman and Fazilatunnesa supported him, took care of the family and made important political decisions when Bangabandhu was jailed as a political prisoner during the freedom struggle.