Bangladesh, Aug. 6 -- Wanting to act in plays, he fashioned a screen from his mother's saree at the age of 10 and put up a stage; the pull, though, had taken root even earlier, sitting in his mother's lap and watching plays unfold.
He is Abul Hayat, the commanding actor of stage and screen.
His story begins in 1965, at Chattogram Radio. Over the following decades, he worked tirelessly across stage and television.
Amid all this, he made his big-screen debut under celebrated filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak.
To a generation of viewers in Bangladesh, he is a familiar face for playing the father in television dramas.
But the natural-born character actor has no complaints about that; by his own reckoning, he has always been the "hero".
Appearing as...