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{{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
|nationality=Bangladeshi
|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, 2022}}</ref>

==Background==
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 (Bangladesh)|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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404070230/http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5384 |archive-date=April 4, 2022}}</ref>

==Career==
Khan was a [[Bengali language movement|Language Movement]] activist in 1952 and a freedom fighter of [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] in 1971. He worked as a sub-editor in the ''[[The Sangbad|Daily Sangbad]]'' during 1955–1957. He served as contributing editor in the ''[[Holiday (newspaper)|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, 2022}}</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, 2022}}</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, 2022}}</ref>

==Personal life==
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, 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Bangladeshi journalists]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi columnists]]
[[Category:Bengali language movement activists]]
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