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The Man The Lighthouse
Aly Zaker the Freedom fighter, actor, director, theatre activist, photographer, writer, and entrepreneur. During his lifetime, Aly Zaker’s many roles were inspired by his two greatest passions- his country and the arts. These two loves drove him to become what he is today: one of Bangladesh’s most renowned cultural personalities, a lighthouse who touched countless lives with his warmth, shaped many young minds with his brilliance, and left an indelible mark on the country.

A storyteller at heart, the characters he played became immortalized in popular culture, his contributions changed the face of theatre in Bangladesh, and his joint-founding of the country’s only Liberation War museum had a profound impact on how we preserve and retell history. Born in Chittagong, Bangladesh on November 6, 1944, Aly Zaker is the third of four children born to Rezia Taher and Muhammad Taher. He spent his childhood in the various districts of East Pakistan where his father, a bureaucrat, would be posted. These early exposures would instill in him a lifelong love for nature, manifested in his amateur photography subjects. “Photograph what you love” was his motto, and almost his entire body of work consists of depictions of his family and the rural beauty of Bangladesh. In fact, it was this experience of Graam Bangla, his travels on its riverboats, trains, and horse carts with his father as a child, that instilled in him an ardent love for his motherland, and lit the spark of his artistic temperament.

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