[4] Nazrul Islam was born on 23 October 1941 at Shomoshpur village in Sreenagar Upazila of Munshiganj to Mosleh Uddin Khan and Shayesta Khanom.

[2] At the same time, he directed and voiced radio dramas including Ramer Sumoti, Socrates and Sakhina Birangana.

[2] In 2006, he directed Shuva based on Rabindranath Tagore's novel Shuvashini with Shakib Khan and Dilara Hanif Purnima, which praised from critics and audience.

[9][10][11] Nazrul Islam served as the chairman of the Bangladesh Film Director's Association, as a member of the censor board and of the joint production committee.

[2] At age seventy three, Nazrul Islam died of liver cancer at the Labaid Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 January 2015.