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Saiful Azam Kashem

Bangladeshi film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ64348044
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Saiful Azam Kashem (31 December 1947 – 11 March 2019) was a Bangladeshi film director. He directed many Dhallywood movies.

Biography

Kashem was born on 31 December 1947 in Comilla. His debut direction was Ontorale. He directed films like Sohag, Ghor Songsar, Duniadari, Halchal and Swamir Adesh. These films are selected for preservation in Bangladesh Film Archive.

Kashem died on 11 March 2019 at the age of 71 in Apollo Hospital Dhaka.

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The public source identifies “Saiful Azam Kashem” as bangladeshi film director. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Saiful, Azam and Kashem.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-12-31. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Saiful, Azam and Kashem providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q64348044. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Saiful Azam Kashem” 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.