BSS-52 1971 veteran, filmmaker Syed Sajedur Rahman Firoz passes away

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1971 veteran, filmmaker Syed Sajedur Rahman Firoz passes away

DHAKA, Aug 13, 2018 (BSS) – Liberation War veteran and noted filmmaker
and researcher Syed Sajedur Rahman Firoz passed away yesterday after
prolonged battle with cancer in London, family sources said. He was 68.

A freedom fighter belonging to Liberation War time Sector 2, Firoz left
behind his wife, a son and a host of relatives and well wishers to mourn his
death.

“He (Firoz) passed pain free and surrounded by family, after battling
cancer for the last two years,” his son wrote in a facebook post adding he
breathed his last at 11 am BST while his namaz-e-janaza was held at London’s
Brick lane Mosque.

Details of his burial plan could not be known immediately.

In his long checkered career, he earned the fame of being a renowned
filmmaker producing a number of classical documentaries with one being on
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman alongside the anti-British revolutionaries
like Surya Sen and Binod Bihari.

A close friend of Bangabandhu’s eldest son Sheikh Kamal, Firoz is more
known as philanthropist for his generous service to the people in need in the
country though he spent most of his life in Europe.

He was a trustee of world’s first London-based secular NGO Toynbee Hall
and Sir William Beverage Foundation founded by fellow 1971 veteran Rahman
Jilani.

In 2009, he founded Media Box in Bangladesh to produce documentary films
and specialised music videos alongside publishing books on illuminated
personalities and on historical, cultural and archaeological heritages.

The concept and vision of Media Box is primarily to highlight
Bangladesh’s history, culture, archaeological heritages and lifestyles of its
people.

“We are not producing commercial films. All our documentaries are based
on solid research works. Some of our researches took one to two years to
complete,” Firoz said in a recent media interview.

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