Bobita

Farida Akhter is a Bangladeshi film actress. She is best known for her performance in Satyajit Rays Distant Thunder, a novel adaptation about the Bengal famine of 1943, which won the Golden Bear prize at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1973. She was active in the 1970s through 1990s as an actress in Bangladeshi films.

Bobita was born to an educated family that had its origins in the westBangladeshi district of Jessore, Bangladesh. Her nickname is Poppy. She has two sisters and three brothers. Bobitas mother studied in Lady Brabourne College in Calcutta. In an interview with the Independent newspaper in 2004, Bobita says that it was Afzal Chowdhury who suggested the screen name Bobita for her. In another interview with the Daily Star in 2005, she mentions that Zahir Raihan originally casts her for the movie Shongshaar. A different version of the story is that she adopted the name after appearing in Ehteshams movie Pitch Dhala Path.

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