Suchanda and Rafi Hossain to be awarded the Fazlul Haque Memorial Award 2019

Actor Kohinoor Akhter Suchanda and journalist Rafi Hossain will be honoured with the 16th Fazlul Haque Memorial Award 2019 for direction and cine journalism respectively. Both winners will receive prize money of BDT 25000, crests and certificates of honour.

Like previous years, Fazlul Haque Smrity Committee awarded the duo for their contribution to Bangladeshi cinema and cine-journalism respectively.  The committee has organised this event since 2004, in honour of the late photo-journalist Fazlul Haque.Renowned novelist Rabeya Khatun initiated this award, which will be handed over to the winners on the last week of November.

Fazlul Haque was born in 1930 in Bogra. He is the spouse of Rabeya Khatun and father of Faridur Reza Sagar, managing director of Channel i. A pioneer of cine-journalism in Bangladesh, Haque was the Editor of ‘Cinema’, the first newspaper on film inf the country and the director of ‘President’, Bangladesh’s first ever film for children.