Ferdous Ahmed is a Bangladeshi actor and he sparked controversy after campaigning for Trinamool Congress in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. He has done around 200 movies in the Bangladeshi and West Bengal cinema. He has won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor four times for his films Hothat Brishti (1998), Gangajatra (2009), Kusum Kusum Prem (2011) and Ek Cup Cha (2014). He is a mass communication graduate from the University of Dhaka.
Ferdous Ahmed’s first film Hothat Brishti, was directed by noted director Bengali director Basu Chatterjee and for this he got National Award for Best Actor. The movie was an India-Bangladesh joint production. The film was a remake of National Award-winning Tamil film Kadhal Kottai which was later remade in 1999 in Hindi as Sirf Tum. According to an interview given by him to the Star Weekend Magazine, he was also awarded the Vjala Anondodok award in Kolkata for Hothat Brishti.
Ahmed is also a part-time model and owns film production house Nuzhat Films, TV production house CinemaScope and a wing of event planning studio.
Ahmed, along with a few Indian actors, allegedly took part in campaigning for TMC’s Raiganj candidate Kanhaiyalal Agarwal. The Bangladeshi film star was reportedly seen seeking votes for Agarwal at campaign rallies across Hemtabad and Karandighi near the Indo-Bangladesh border. The FRRO is responsible for providing visa services in the area under its jurisdiction.
