title: Nazma Anwar
text: # Nazma Anwar
  
  Nazma Anwar (c. 1941 – 14 December 2004) was a Bangladeshi film and television actress, and drama activist. She performed in Bengali films including Hajar Bachhor Dhore (2005), Dukhai (1997) Joyjatra (2004), Shonkhonil Karagar (1992), Chittagong: The Last Stopover (2000), Shankhonad (2004) and also in television drama plays including Iblish, Kothao Keu Nei, and Tahara.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Anwar was born in 1941 in Munshiganj District in the-then British India. Her father was a professor of Arabic in the Government Haraganga College. She moved to Dhaka with her family when while she finished her sixth grade in school.
  
  ## Career
  
  Anwar started her career as a theater activist by joined Dhaka Drama Circle in 1960s. In 1981, she joined in Aranyak Natyadal, a theater group in Bangladesh.
  
  In 2001, she played in the tele drama Kariman Bewa (2001), based on the biography of freedom fighter Taramon Bibi.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Anwar had five children. Her daughter, Ishrat Nishat (d. 2020), was a theatre activist.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Films
  
  * Shonkhonil Karagar (1992)
  * Dukhai (1997)
  * Chittagong: The Last Stopover (2000)
  * Joyjatra (2004)
  * Shankhonad (2004)
  * Hajar Bachhor Dhore (2005)
  