The Dhallywood film industry--the film industry based in Dhaka, Bangladesh--released four feature films in 1963. [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Title | Director | Starring | Language | Ref. |
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Dharapat | Salahuddin | Nasima Khan, Amjad Hossain, Sujata | Bengali | [5] [6] |
Nach Ghar | Abdul Jabbar Khan | Shabnam, Golam Mustafa, Nasima Khan | Urdu | [6] [7] |
Preet Na Jane Reet | Masud Chaudhury | Shabnam, Khalil, Golam Mustafa, Surraiya | Urdu | [6] [8] |
Talash | Mustafiz | Shabnam, Rahman, Shawkat Akbar, Rani Sarker, Subhash Dutta | Urdu | [9] [10] [lower-alpha 2] |
There are numerous minor inconsistencies in transliteration among the sources. Greater discrepancies are as follows:
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