Bangladeshi actor, director and scriptwriter, all rolled into one, Mamunur Rashid has been around in the Bangladeshi film industry for a long time. He began his career as an actor when he founded the theatre troupe Aranyak in 1972. He produced several plays with his troupe, the most prominent of which were Rarang and Ebong Biddyasagar.

He performed in various television plays and starred in films like Kittonkhola (2000), Priotomeshu (2009), Monpura (2009), Mrittika Maya (2013) and Nekabborer Mohaproyan (2014), among others. Apart from an illustrious career, Rashid is also the recipient of the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1982 as well as honoured with the Ekushey Padak in 2012, before he joined the cast of Bhuban Majhi (2018).