Ruhul Amin was born in Sylhet District, Bangladesh, and came to Britain with his parents in the early 1980s[1] while he was a teenager.
[1] In 1986, Ruhul Amin made his first feature film for Channel 4 television entitled A Kind of English.
[5] He is currently making an epic Bengali feature film Hason Raja based on the based on the life and music of the folk poet, mystic philosopher and songwriter of the same name played by Mithun Chakraborty, produced by Galaxy Films between UK, India and Bangladesh.
[6] The film was funded by Ruhul Amin's friends and the Bangladeshi community in England.
[2] Ruhul Amin is known for creating sensitive, understated, poetic films centred on the life of the Bengali community in the East End of London.