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Omar Sani

Bangladeshi actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ15848298
Source-derived summary

Mohammad Omar Sani (born 6 May 1968) is a Bangladeshi film and television actor. He made his debut as a lead role with the film Chader Alo (1993), directed by Shekh Nozrul Islam

Career

Sani's film debut was in the 1993 film Chader Alo, directed by Shaikh Najrul Islam Khan. He acted in Prem Protishodh (1993) and Mohoth (1994). He met his future wife, Moushumi, at the film Dola (1994), and his first with Sadika Parvin Popy was Coolie (1997), directed by Montazur Rahman Akbar. In 2003 he performed as an antagonist for the first time in Uttam Akash's action film Ora Dalal, starring opposite Shakib Khan and Rachna Banerjee. Subsequently, he also achieved success as a villain. After a 13-year hiatus from the film industry, he appeared in the film Ami Tumi Se, Pagol Tor Jonnore, Ajob Prem in 2013.

Personal life

Omar Sani comes from a family with strong ties to the Dhallywood movie industry and well established actors in their own rights. On 2 August 1996, Sani married actress Moushumi. They have a son, Fardin Ehsan Shadin, and a daughter, Faiza.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Omar Sani” is bangladeshi actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Omar, Sani and Bangladeshi, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1993, 1994, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-05-06. For this dossier, Omar, Sani and Bangladeshi is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15848298. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1993, 1994 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from Omar Sani” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.