Ilias Javed
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1944
- Actor
- choreographer
Ilias Javed | |
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ইলিয়াস জাবেদ | |
| Born | Raja Mohammad Ilias 1944 Peshawar, Afghanistan |
| Died | (aged 82) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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| Spouse |
Dolly Chowdhury (m. 1984) |
Ilias Javed (1944 – 21 January 2026), known professionally as Javed, was a Bangladeshi actor and choreographer who predominantly worked in Bangladeshi cinema. He acted in more than 200 films which include Nishan, Payel, and Maleka Banu.[1]
Javed was born as Raja Mohammad Ilias in Peshawar, Afghanistan in 1944.[2][3] His father was Raja Muhammad Afzan.[4] Subsequently, he with his family moved to British Indian province of Punjab. In 1963, Javed moved to Dacca, then part of East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).[5] Filmmaker Mustafizul Haq gave him the screen name Javed.[6]
Career
Javed started his film career as a dance director in the 1960s. His first assignment as a choreographer was for "Malan", the Urdu-language film, directed by Kaiser Pasha. At the age of 14, he made his acting debut by his performance in the Urdu film Nayi Zindagi which was released in 1964.[7][1] He learnt dance from the notable dancer Birju Maharaj.[8]
He got his breakthrough in the film Payel, directed by Mustafizul Haq, released on January 30 in 1970.[1]
Javed's most frequent notable co-actor was Anju Ghosh.[4]