He was credited with directing Mukh O Mukhosh (1956), the first Bengali-language film ever made in the then East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh).
Abdul Jabbar khan was born in Masadgoan village in Dhaka-Bikrampur Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Lohajang Upazila of Munshiganj District, Bangladesh) in 1916.
During his school days, Khan performed in plays like "Behula", "Vishwamangal", "Satirtha", "Samajpati", "Matir Ghar", and "Sohrab Rustam".
[1] In 1953, at a cultural program, F. Dossani, a non-Bengali film producer, remarked that “The climate of this land is not fit for making movies.” Khan then decided to make a film based on his play "Dakaat".
[2] Khan released the film in Roopmahal Movie Theatre in Dhaka with the title Mukh O Mukhosh (The Face and the Mask) on 3 August 1956.