Shimul Yousuf

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Shimul Yousuf (Bengali: শিমুল ইউসুফ) (born 24 March 1957) is a Bangladeshi actress and singer.

Early life

Shimul Yousuf was born in Dhaka on 24 March 1957 and is the youngest of seven siblings. Her father Mehter Billah from Bikrampur was a singer in Kamlapur. Shimul started singing at the age of five. She performed on radio and television and went on to sing in a children show named "Kochi Kanchar Mela". [citation needed] She trained in classical and traditional songs from Ustad Helaluddin, P C Gomez, Altaf Mahmud, and Abdul Latif .[citation needed] Shimul completed her Honours in Social Science. [citation needed] She was admitted to the Institute of Fine Arts and also went to Baroda School of Fine Arts for schooling.[1]

Career

Shimul first appeared in theatre in one of the Abdullah Al Mamun’s plays to raise funds for the freedom fighters in 1972. [citation needed] In 1974 she incorporated her in Dhaka Theatre after her siblings asked to be a proxy for another actress. Shimul began to take acting seriously after her 1975 drama “Muntasir Fantasy”. She worked on Kasai (1976), Char Khakra (1977), Shakuntala (1978), Phani Monosa (1980), Kitton Khola (1981), Keramot Mongol (1985), Hat Hadai (1989), and Chaka (1990). [citation needed] During the 1990s she performed in Joiboti Kannyar Mon (1995) and Bono Pangshul (1998). [citation needed][1]

Binodini

One of her works in theatre is the drama Binodini, based on a 19th-century actress Binodini Dasi. It is a one-person show where Yousuf portrayed the character of Binodini and also delivered the speeches of the remaining characters. The play was written by script writer Saymon Zakaria and directed by Shimul's husband, Nasiruddin Yousuf. The play mainly perpetuated the life of Binodini Dasi as she struggled to prolong her career in theatre. Shimul said that "[the drama] shows the reality, the conflicts and contradiction an actress faces today, has not changed much since Binodini's time. Obviously I am affected by such realities."[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mehreen Amin, Aasha (2007-03-23), Star Weekend Magazine, The Daily Star (The Daily Star (Bangladesh)) http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2007/03/04/cover.htm |url= missing title (help) 
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