‘After losing Javed, I am left all alone’: Sohel Rana
Ilias Javed is the hero of Dhakai cinema’s golden era. He acted in countless superhit films. At the same time, he was also a renowned dance director. Defeated by cancer, this audience-favourite actor passed away today.
His close friend, actor Sohel Rana, spoke to The Daily Star this afternoon about the late actor Javed.
Sohel Rana said, “Most of my contemporaries are no longer alive. Only a few were still living, and actor Javed was one of them. Now he too has gone to the land of no return. After losing Javed, I am left all alone. I have become terribly lonely. It hurts deeply to lose him.”
“He was a very close friend of mine. A very good friend. For decades, our journeys ran parallel in the same field,” he added.
Sohel Rana further said, “Javed was not only an actor. He was also a renowned dance director. He worked as a dance director in many bumper-hit films of this country. He had learned dance from the famous subcontinental dancer Birju Maharaj. That is why many dance directors used to call him ‘Ustad’.”
He said, “Both of us started acting in films around the same time. After 1971, our acquaintance and friendship began. That friendship lasted a lifetime. I cannot fully express how close a friend he was. He was the dance director of many of my films. His work always meant something exceptional. Those works will keep him alive for generations.”
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Although actor Javed was Pakistani, he chose to stay in Bangladesh and continued acting and working as a dance director regularly. On this matter, Sohel Rana said, “Javed was not originally a person of this country. Even after being Pakistani, he chose to stay here. I liked him even more for loving Bangladesh and deciding to stay here. Javed loved Bangladesh deeply.”
Sohel Rana said, “Javed loved the Bangla language immensely. I never saw him speak in Urdu. He always spoke in Bangla, and he spoke it beautifully. He considered this country to be his own. For this reason, my love and respect for him increased even more.”
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