Kusum Sikder

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Kushum Sikder
কুসুম সিকদার
Kusum Sikder.jpg
Sikder, IFFI (2016)
NationalityBangladeshi
Occupation(s)Actress, model
Years active2004-present

Kushum Sikder is a Bangladeshi television and film actress, singer and model, writer and poet. She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress in a leading role in the film Shankhachil (2016). [1] [2]

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Career

Sikder started as a singer. She later acted in several television dramas. She later acted in films as Khalid Mahmud Mithu's Gohine Shobdo, Swapan Ahmed's Lal Tip, and Goutam Ghose's Shankhachil [3] Then she also directed a film named Shoroter Joba , where she is the writer-producer-director herself. [4] [5]

Controversy

Sikdar's music video for the song "Nesha" was released on 3 August 2017. It received 1.3 million views in just two weeks on YouTube. A lawyer sent a legal notice asking for the removal of all the obscene and vulgar music videos from YouTube including "Nesha", claiming it contained vulgar, obscene scenery and inappropriate lyrics, which do not go with the video. He further claimed that such obscene and vulgar music videos will destroy the music industry. [6]

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorRoleNotes
2010 Gohine Shobdo Khalid Mahmud Mithu Swapna
2012 Lal Tip Swapan AhmedNidhi
2016 Shankhachil [7] [8] Goutam Ghose Laila
2023 Shoroter Joba Herself and Sumon DharTBAPost -production; also director

As director

YearFilmsDirectorNotes
2023 Shoroter Joba YesDebut as director

Television

YearTitle
2004"Ghater Kotha"
2008Jogajog
2009Boi Pagol
2009Shari
2009Oparetey Shorbo Shukh
2010Bondi
2010Tribhuj
2011Superman
2016Sublet Gublet
2016Astha
2018Sesh Asesher Golpo

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