Abu Taher Mohammad Shamsuzzaman (Bengali: আবু তাহের মোহাম্মদ শামসুজ্জ়ামান; 10 September 1941 – 20 February 2021),[1] was a Bangladeshi film and television actor, director and screen-playwright.
[1] Shamsuzzaman was born into a Bengali Muslim family at his maternal home in Daulatpur, Noakhali on 10 September 1941.
His ancestral paternal home is in Bholakot Boro Bari in Ramganj, Lakshmipur District.
[2] According to a probe report of "Nilima Ibrahim Committee", a six-member committee led by educationist Nilima Ibrahim, Shamsuzzaman was suspended from the television and radio programmes because of his alleged role in favor of Pakistan army during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
According to him; During Liberation war Pakistani Army forced him to attend a radio drama for which he was accused for alleged role in favor of Pakistan [6] Shamsuzzaman married Runy Begum in 1968.