Masud Rana is a fictional character created in 1966 by the writer Qazi Anwar Hussain, who featured him in 472 books (325 novels and 6 short stories).

Qazi Anwar Hussain created the adult spy-thriller series Masud Rana, at first modeled after James Bond, but expanded widely.

Although the sole author of the series was Qazi Anwar Hussain, it is known that he liberally extracted segments of plots from popular Western spy thrillers from the contemporary period.

Nonetheless, the series became a boon for young people in post-war Bangladesh, who had few entertainment alternatives in an era pre-dating cable TV, the Internet and smart phones.

The books caused concern among some middle-class parents because of their occasional racy contents, and reading Masud Rana was an activity often frowned upon.

[2] In July 2018, the Bangladeshi production house Jaaz Multimedia received permission from Hussain to make three movies based on the first three novels of the series.

In July 2018, the Jaaz Multimedia production house announced that it was going to make the films based on Dhwangsha Pahar, Bharatnatyam and Swarna Mrigya.

"We recently received permission to make films on the widely read Masud Rana series from Qazi Anwar Hussain," the company said.

[7] The first package drama in the history of Bangladesh, Prachir Periye (Beyond the Wall) was telecast in 1994 and is based on Pishach Dweep (The Island of Evil) with screenplay by Atiqul Haque Chowdhury and stars Bipasha Hayat.

In 2023, Jaaz Multimedia released a Bengali movie, MR-9: Do or Die, directed by Asif Akbar based on the novel Dhangsa Pahar.

Rana tends to be a solitary individual who enjoys athletic pursuits such as running, skiing, hiking, swimming, diving, and most notably, climbing.

He has a remarkable willingness to take on dangerous missions, making him an excellent candidate for intelligence, espionage, counterintelligence, and covert operations assignments.

While the world is far from black and white to Rana, he does tend to see it in stark terms of chaos and order, tradition and change.

In addition, he earned certifications for operating various rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, including fighter jets, hovercraft, marine assault vessels, and armored vehicles.

His training encompasses special reconnaissance, sniping, evasive driving, free-falling, hostage rescue and negotiation, human-intelligence gathering, and numerous other military skills.

Major Rana proved his capabilities as a trainer, adept at training other candidates, initiating athletic competitions, and fostering a creative environment.

Major Rana has a natural aptitude for learning BCI methods and excels in languages, speaking fluently without accent in Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, English, Italian, French, and German.

Rana has fought around the world as a mercenary, though not for money, for ideology and humanity, knowingly in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Congo, Bosnia, Katanga and Zimbabwe.

He has served undercover in the Royal Navy on an assignment from MI6 to foil an anarchist plot, and in the mercenary Katanga Army to rescue a Rana Agency agent stranded inside rebel territory.

[13] Some Rana books are little more than direct translations from well known Western titles with only character names being changed i.e. "Shotru Bibhishon" from The Negotiator and "Ondho Shikari" from The Fourth Protocol.