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Shantanu Biswas

October 25, 1954 –July 12, 2019

Singer-songwriter, Composer, Writer, Actor, Playwright

Lived 64 years

Born in
Chittagong
Passed away in
Dhaka

Shantanu Biswas (25 October 1954 – 12 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi dramatist, playwright, stage director, singer-songwriter and composer. He has written and directed several full-length plays between 1975 and 2019, where he performed as an actor in more than sixteen plays. His major successes include Informer (1982), and Julius Caesar er Shesh Shaat Din (The Last Seven Days of Julius Caesar) (1987).

Born in Chittagong (now Chattogram), Biswas spent his whole life in the port city, where he struggled to establish himself as a dramatist and musician. He has released five solo and two mixed albums. He made his debut album Chirkut in 2009. His last solo Sritir Shohore was released posthumously in 2019 by G-Series. His music as blended with modern poetry, and lyrics with diverse tunes covering different genres of world music.

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantanu_Biswas