{{Short description|Bangladeshi writer and director}} {{infobox person |name=Masum Reza |native_name= মাসুম রেজা |native_name_lang=bn |image = Masum Reza Portrait.jpg |caption = Reza in October 2018 |birth_place = Kushtia, Khulna |alma_mater = Rajshahi University |occupation = Playwright |spouse = Selina Shelley }}
'''Masum Reza''' is a Bangladeshi playwright, television drama and stage play director.<ref name=back>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/tv/masum-reza-back-the-stage-after-17-years-1347802|title=Masum Reza: Back to the stage after 17 years|accessdate=January 27, 2017|date=January 20, 2017|newspaper=The Daily Star|author=Shah Alam Shazu}}</ref> He is best known for writing the screenplay of the television drama serial ''Ronger Manush'' (2004). In 2016, he won Bangla Academy Literary Award in the drama category.<ref>{{cite news |title=11 get Bangla Academy award |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/11-honoured-bangla-academy-awards-208660|publisher=The Daily Star |work=UNB|date=28 January 2016 |accessdate=27 January 2017}}</ref> He wrote screenplay for films including ''Meghla Akash'' (2002), ''Molla Barir Bou'' (2005), ''Bapjaner Bioscope'' (2015) and ''Hason Raja'' (2017).<ref name=power/> In 2010, he published two novels.<ref name=novelist/>
==Career== Reza debuted in direction in ''Chand Alir Documentary'', a street play, in Kushtia in 1979.<ref name=rural/> He has been associated with the theater troupe ''Desh Natok'' since 1988.<ref name=power>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/expressing-powerful-emotions-on-screen-40203|title=Expressing powerful emotions on screen|date=5 September 2014|accessdate=27 January 2017|publisher=The Daily Star|author=Shah Alam Shazu}}</ref> His full-fledged stage play is ''Birsa Kabya''.<ref name=rural/> He first wrote the screenplay for the television drama Koitab.<ref name=power/>
==Works== ;Stage plays * ''Surgaon'' (2017) * ''Kuhokjal'' (2014)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/a-tale-of-deception-and-disillusionment-38108|title=Theatre premieres Kuhokjal|author=Saurav Dey|date=22 August 2014|accessdate=27 January 2017|publisher=The Daily Star}}</ref> * ''NityaPurana'' (2001)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/07/19/d407191403113.htm|title=Nittapuran : An adapted play from the Mahabharata|date=19 July 2004|accessdate=27 January 2017|newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref>
;Television dramas * ''Ronger Manush'' (2004) * ''Megh Rang Meye'' (2005)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/08/23/d508231403106.htm|title=New TV serial Megh Rang Meye|date=23 August 2005|accessdate=27 January 2017|newspaper=The Daily Star|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202040404/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/08/23/d508231403106.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Saat Sawdagor'' (2013)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-264233|title=Stories of rural lives take up the small screen|date=8 January 2013|accessdate=27 January 2017|publisher=The Daily Star|author=Shah Alam Shazu}}</ref> * ''The Village Engineer'' (2016)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/tv/%E2%80%9Cthe-village-engineer%E2%80%9D-rtv-207727|title=The Village Engineer on Rtv|date=28 January 2016|accessdate=27 January 2017|publisher=The Daily Star}}</ref>
;Films * ''Meghla Akash'' (2002) * ''Molla Barir Bou'' (2005) * ''Bapjaner Bioscope'' (2015) * ''Hason Raja'' (2017)
;Novels * ''Meen Konna-do'' (2010) * ''Goalkeeper'' (2010)<ref name=novelist>{{cite news|title=Playwright Masum Reza turns novelist|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-127594|date=24 February 2010|accessdate=27 January 2017|publisher=The Daily Star}}</ref>
==Awards== * Bachsas Award (2003)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/06/28/d406281402119.htm|title=32nd BACHSAS Awards: A glitzy night|date=28 June 2004|accessdate=27 January 2017|publisher=The Daily Star|author=Afsar Ahmed|archive-date=18 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818150357/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/06/28/d406281402119.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Zakaria Smrity Padak (2004)<ref name=rural>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/11/28/d41128140192.htm|title='Rural life is the mainstay of my TV plays'-- Masum Reza|date=28 November 2004|accessdate=27 January 2017|publisher=The Daily Star|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202040604/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/11/28/d41128140192.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Meril Prothom Alo Awards for Best Playwright (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/05/13/d6051301118.htm|title=Meril-Prothom Alo awards for 2005 given|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=May 13, 2006|accessdate=27 January 2017|archive-date=1 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001183452/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/05/13/d6051301118.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Bangla Academy Literary Award (2016) * National Film Awards (Bangladesh) (2017)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|5067975}} {{Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Story}} {{Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Screenplay}} {{authority control}}
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