Shomi Kaiser

Shomi Kaiser is a Bangladeshi actress and political activist. She is currently the managing director of Dhansiri Communications Ltd, an advertising and event management company. She belongs to a Bengali family originally from the village of Majupur in Sonagazi, Feni District. Her grandfather, Mawlana Mohammad Habibullah, was a professor at the Calcutta Alia Madrasa and later the Dacca Alia Madrasa. Her father was a writer-novelist. Shomi Kaiser was two years old when her father was taken from home by Al Badr militia and Pakistani Army on 14 December 1971. His body was never found. Her mother, Panna Kaiser, was a writer and former M.P. Their maternal uncle is former president of Bangladesh A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, whose wife, Maya, is the sister of Panna Kaiser.

Career Shomi Kaiser received her first break In 1989, when director Atiqul Haque Chowdhury was looking for a young actress who could speak Noakhali dialect for his play Keba Apon Keba Por. Next she worked on the three episode play Joto Durey Jai, based on a novel by Imdadul Haque Milon, directed by Abdullah al Mamun. which produced Mukti and Antorey Nirantor.

In 2017, Kaiser was elected as one of the directors of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI). In 2018, she was elected as the president of e-Commerce Association (e-CAB). At the aftermath of 2024 non-cooperation movement, she resigned from the position on 13 August 2024.

She was nominated in the election as a representative of the Sammilita Ganotantrik Parishad panel.

In November 2018, Kaiser applied for nomination for the Feni-3 constituency on behalf of Bangladesh Awami League party.

Personal life Kaiser has been married three times. Her first husband was Indian-Bengali film director Riingo Banerjee, whom she married in 1999 and divorced two years later.

Criticism Shomi Kaiser took a stand for the government during the repression of the Awami League government on the students in the quota reform movement that took place in 2024. During the movement, a group of pro-Awami artists, including Shomi Kaiser, were active against the movement in a WhatsApp group called 'Alo Ashbei' led by actor Ferdous. After the non-cooperation movement, on 3 September 2024, some screenshots related to that WhatsApp group were spread on social media. Shomi Kaiser went into hiding after the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government on 5 August 2024. She was arrested on 6 November 2024 by the police from a house in Sector-4 Uttara on murder chargers.

Works Telefilms Jatra Pother Golpo (2018)

Television plays Londoni Koinya - The bride from London (2000) Pratipaksha Onumoti Prarthona (2015)

Television serials Kon Kanoner Phul Nokkhotrer Raat