Mujib Pardeshi

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Mujib Pardeshi
মুজিব পরদেশী
NationalityBangladeshi
Occupation(s)Musician, actor, music director

Mujib Pardeshi is a folk musician, film actor, and music director from Bangladesh.[ citation needed ]

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Biography

Pardeshi was born in Betka village in what is now Tongibari Upazila of Munshiganj District. [1] He completed a bachelor's degree in English at Dhaka University. [2]

He started his career as a tabla player before establishing himself as a singer and rising to eminence in the 1980s. [1] [3]

Pardeshi made his acting debut in the film Sukh, directed by Siraj Haider. After appearing in Firoz Al Mamun's Mohon Malar Banobas in the late 1980s, he took a long hiatus from acting. [2] He worked as an assistant to film music directors Satya Saha, Subal Das, and Dhir Ali Miah. [1] He was the music director for about 20 films, starting with Ashanto Dheu, and including Hafiz Uddin's Asati. He is well known for the song he wrote for hit film Beder Meye Josna . [3]

Pardeshi has released 42 solo albums, the most successful of which was Bondi Karagarey. [1] Well known for his folk singing, he has traveled abroad many times to perform for the Bangladeshi diaspora. [4] [5]

As of 2001, he was music director for Bangladesh Film Development Corporation and an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Information. [4]

In 2017, he returned to the silver screen in Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's Doob: No Bed of Roses . [2]

Works

Notable songs

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Mujib Pardeshi's new album after four years". The Independent. Dhaka. 29 January 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Folk king Pardeshi in custody on fraud charge". bdnews24.com. 13 February 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
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  5. Mani Mahanta, "A 'pardeshi' enthralls river people with night-long ballads: Brahmaputra char people swing to the tune of Mujib's folk tales of the people along the Padma", The Northeast Daily (10 December 1999), cited in Willem van Schendel, The Bengal Borderland, Anthem Press, 2005, p. 344. "Renowned Bangladeshi folk singer Mujib Pardeshi ... came across the Bangladesh border [to India] to sing at "Pardeshi Cultural nite" organized for raising fund[s] for a local youth association"