I'm lucky: Shabana

I'm lucky: Shabana

Monzur Kader |
 Jun 22, 2017 

ShabanaShe is popularly renowned to us as Shabana, thespian Shabana, United Nations agency quit the glamour world seventeen years agone. Shabana is currently living together with her husband Wahid Sadik and 3 youngsters thousands of miles far from People's Republic of Bangladesh, in New Jersey, us.

Shabana, United Nations agency has recently come back to People's Republic of Bangladesh, talked to Prothom Alo last weekday. Prothom Alo's Monzur Kader took the interview.

Prothom Alo (PA): You quit the acting in films all of a fast and flew to the US. Why?

Shabana: It's all regarding my family. My elder girl Shumi visited the States for instruction once finishing her A-Levels in People's Republic of Bangladesh. A year later, my younger girl conjointly got admission to Yale.

They were missing American state there. i made a decision to go away People's Republic of Bangladesh and visited US with my husband and son Nahin. I felt I had spent an extended time within the screenland and had managed to win the love of by the individuals and was called Shabana. So, i made a decision to wrap it all up and leave.

PA: however did you are feeling regarding going away all this fame and therefore the fans?

Shabana: The film world was my family. I worked for it unrelentingly. I did miss my co-actors, directors, the atmosphere at the FDC (Film Development Corporation). But, at one stage, individuals had no selection. this stuff come back up bit by bit and that we need to bear it. But, I still feel thus lucky.


PA:What are your youngsters doing now?
Shabana: Shumi Iqbal has completed Master in Business and controller from USA. She is currently a whole married woman. My younger girl Urmi Sadik is about to finish her Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard. My son Nahin Sadik, United Nations agency has completed his master's degree from Rutgers University, now's performing at Bloomberg.

Shabana in her showbiz yearsPA: however does one pass your days in US?
Shabana: i've got to try and do all the family chores and different things. So, I stay quite busy there. except my personal matters, I invariably seek for People's Republic of Bangladesh news on-line. That's all.

PA: does one watch your previous films?
Shabana: once People's Republic of Bangladesh tv channels run my films, it delights American state. That let's American state to recall my previous recollections.

PA: does one see current Bangladeshi films?
Shabana: i've got seen Shakib Khan's movies. I detected of his name. I conjointly detected that Shakib Khan is currently fashionable in Republic of India. It makes American state happy once I came to grasp our actor is fashionable in Republic of India.

PA: you have got been given period of time award at National Film Award. however does one feel?
Shabana: I'm happy with that. It's not my action alone. My parents, administrators and people United Nations agency created American state Shabana are a part of this award.


*This piece, originally printed in Prothom Alo Bangla print edition, has been rewritten in English by Toriqul Islam.