Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ziaul Faruq Apurba appears in 48 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ziaul. Mayashalik is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Saleh Sobhan Auneem, Shihab Shaheen, Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Raz, Ziaul Faruq Apurba helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Mayashalik (2022) as Saif Hasan Avi · Jodi Kintu Tobuo (2021) as Abir · Ditio Koishor (2019) as Apurba
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Ziaul Faruq Apurba.
Films in Nutevio
48
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
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Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Mayashalik
Average Nutevio score
0.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Jodi Kintu Tobuo
Most frequent director
Shihab Shaheen
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Shihab Shaheen
Most common genre
Drama
25 titles
Average runtime
1h 0m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
2.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Notebook, Shada Rumal, Ditio Koishor — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
2.2
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
3.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Notebook, Shada Rumal, Ditio Koishor.
Most productive era
2020s
45 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 3.32 films | 1.123 films |
| Action | — | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | — | 3.24 films |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 1.16 films |
| Crime | — | 3.12 films |
| Romance | 6.51 film | 0.513 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Notebook
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Rayhan.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Mayashalik
6.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Headline
The current state of the argument, as Jahir Ahmed.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
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48 of 48 films
as Saif Hasan Avi
Directed by Shihab Shaheen
as Abir
Directed by Shihab Shaheen
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Saif Hasan Avi
Mayashalik (2022)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Saif Hasan Avi gives Ziaul Faruq Apurba a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Enam
Kacher Manush (2023)
Performance score7.0
Kacher Manush asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Enam is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Troll
Troll (2021)
Performance score7.0
Troll asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Abir
Jodi Kintu Tobuo (2021)
Performance score7.0
Jodi Kintu Tobuo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abir is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Saif Hasan Avi
Start here. Mayashalik is the clearest statement of what Ziaul Faruq Apurba does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ziaul at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Troll (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Mayashalik but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jodi Kintu Tobuo (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Troll — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Icon Man (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Jodi Kintu Tobuo — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Kacher Manush (2023)
Same director as Icon Man, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shihab Shaheen
Director
4 films together · 4.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MayashalikSaleh Sobhan Auneem
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeadlineMohammad Mostafa Kamal Raz
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Say SorrySix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Mayashalik
as Saif Hasan Avi
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Ditio Koishor
as Apurba
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mayashalik
as Saif Hasan Avi
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ditio Koishor
as Apurba
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mayashalik
as Saif Hasan Avi
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Ziaul Faruq Apurba has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Drama Legend
Awarded
25 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Mayashalik
as Saif Hasan Avi
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Troll
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Meghbalika
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Troll
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Icon Man
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Icon Man
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ditio Koishor
as Apurba
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Troll
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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