{{Short description|Bangladeshi journalist and filmmaker}} {{Distinguish|Md. Sadek Khan}} {{infobox person |name=Sadek Khan |birth_date={{birth date|1933|6|21|df=y}} |birth_place= Munshiganj District, Bengal Presidency, British India |death_date={{death date and age|2016|5|16|1933|6|21|df=y}} |death_place=Dhaka, Bangladesh |occupation=journalist, columnist, filmmaker |spouse=Anjuman Chowdhury Khan |children=Kishon Khan |father=Abdul Jabbar Khan |relatives={{unbulleted list|Selima Rahman (sister)|A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan (brother)|Abu Zafar Obaidullah (brother)|Rashed Khan Menon (brother)| Mr Alan Khan (brother)|Sultan M. Khan (brother)}} }}
'''Sadek Khan''' (21 June 1933 – 16 May 2016) was a Bangladeshi journalist, columnist and filmmaker. In 2002, he was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh.<ref name=death>{{cite web |url=http://www.newsbangladesh.com/english/details/14393 |title=Veteran journalist Sadek Khan passes away |website=News Bangladesh |date=May 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519144845/http://www.newsbangladesh.com/english/details/14393 |archive-date=May 19, 2016 |access-date=October 15, 2016}}</ref>
==Personal life == Khan was the eldest son of justice Abdul Jabbar Khan, former speaker of the then Pakistan National Assembly and former president of East Pakistan Muslim League. His ancestors were from Baherchar-Khudrakathi village, Babuganj Upazila, Barisal District.<ref name=death/> His siblings include former government minister and politician Selima Rahman, poet Abu Zafar Obaidullah, journalist and government minister A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan, government minister Rashed Khan Menon, Architect Sultan M. Khan, Alan Khan, a photographer in Sydney, and ''New Age'' news publisher Shahidullah Khan Badal.<ref>{{cite news |last=Halim |first=Anwar Parvez |access-date=October 15, 2016 |date=March 19, 2005 |title=All in the family |url=http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5384 |newspaper=Probe News Magazine |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404070230/http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5384 |archive-date=April 4, 2010}}</ref>
Khan was married to Anjuman Chowdhury Khan. Together they had a son Kishon Khan.<ref name="pass">{{cite news |title=Journalist Sadeq Khan passes away |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/journalist-sadeq-khan-passes-away-1225192 |work=The Daily Star |date=May 17, 2016 |access-date=October 15, 2016}}</ref>
==Career== Khan was a Language Movement activist in 1952 and a freedom fighter of Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. He worked as a sub-editor in the ''Daily Sangbad'' during 1955–1957. He served as contributing editor in the ''Weekly Holiday''.<ref name=pass/> He served as the chairman of the Press Institute of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite news |title=One third of countrymen have no access to media |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/08/30/d60830060581.htm |work=The Daily Star |date=August 30, 2006 |access-date=October 15, 2016}}</ref> He spoke against forming a war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh in November 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-11-15|title=Academics hit out at those demanding trial|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-11764|access-date=2021-04-17|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>
Khan worked in the film industry.<ref name=death/> He directed and produced the film ''Nadi O Nari'' (''The River and the Women'', 1965).<ref>{{cite news |title=Blast from the past |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-21414 |work=The Daily Star |date=February 1, 2008 |access-date=October 15, 2016}}</ref> Film critic Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, when asked by ''Cinemaya'' in 2000 to select the top ten films from Bangladesh, named ''Nadi O Nari'', made when the country was still East Pakistan, as one of the top twelve.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Muztaba Ahmed Zamal |date=Winter 2000 |title=National Ten Best Films |magazine=Cinemaya |volume=50 |page=13}}</ref> He also directed the 1965 Urdu film ''Kaise Kahun''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kabir |first=Alamgir |author-link=Alamgir Kabir (film maker) |year=1979 |title=Film in Bangladesh |publisher=Bangla Academy |page=140 |oclc=475556557}}</ref> Khan acted in the Urdu film ''Duur Hay Shukh Ki Gaon'' directed by A. J. Kardar and the 1964 Bengali film ''Raja Elo Shohore'' directed by Mohiuddin.<ref name="2016deaths">{{Cite news |script-title=bn:২০১৬: শিল্প সাহিত্য অঙ্গন যাঁদের হারিয়েছে |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/bangla/শীর্ষ-খবর/২০১৬-শিল্প-সাহিত্য-অঙ্গন-যাঁদের-হারিয়েছে-76912 |language=bn |work=The Daily Star |date=December 29, 2016 |access-date=January 5, 2017}}</ref>
== Death == Sadek died on 16 May 2016, aged 83, after falling ill at his residence in Baridhara in the capital. He was taken to a private hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<ref name="pass" />
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