Tisha (actress)

Tisha is the daughter of Enamul Hoque and Shaheen Mahfuja Hoque. She started learning music at the age of five. In 1993, she took second place in Bangladesh Television's Notun Kuri talent hunt program. In the same contest two years later, she won the gold cup award.[5]

Tisha started her acting career through the drama Shat Prohorer Kabbo directed by Ahsan Habib and written by Anonto Heera.[5] Tisha also formed a band named Angel Four.

Tisha first modeled for Meril Lipjel. She has participated in advertisements for Coca-Cola, City cell, Parchute, Bombay Sweets and Keya Cosmetics, and won the Meril Prothom Alo Awards for modeling in 2003 and 2004.[5] After a six-year break, Tisha returned to TV advertising in 2014 by appearing in an ad for Square.[6] She also appeared in ads for Robi, Rupchanda, Dabur Amla etc.

Tisha was appointed the first "Public Diplomacy Ambassador (Honorary position) for South Korea" for two years as part of the celebration of 40th anniversary of the two countries bilateral relations in 2013.

On the silver screen, Tisha first appeared in Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's critically acclaimed Third Person Singular Number in 2009 starring alongside Mosharraf Karim, Topu, Abul Hayatand others. Then in 2010 she made a special appearance in the film Runway directed by Tareque Masud. In 2012, she starred in Television directed by M S Farooki alongside Chanchal Chowdhury and Mosharraf Karim.

In 2016, she did her first commercial movie Rana Pagla: The Mental opposite superstar Shakib Khan directed by Shamim Ahmed Roni. Later in the year, she appeared in Ostitto directed by Anonno Mamun starring opposite Arifin Shuvo. For her outstanding performance in this film, she was honoured with the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress in 2017. Then she was seen in Doob: No Bed of Roses, a Bangladesh-India co production directed by M S Farooki starring alongside international star Irrfan Khan, Parno Mittra and Rokeya Prachy. She received the prestigious Meril Prothom Alo Awards for Best Actress (Popular) for her performance. Later she was seen in Haldaa directed by Tauquir Ahmed starring along with Mosharraf Karim, Zahid Hasan and others.

In 2018, she starred in the first anthology film of Bangladesh Sincerely Yours, Dhaka. Her first release of 2019 was Fagun Haway based on the historic Language movement of 1952 directed by Tauquir Ahmed starring Siam Ahmed, Abul Hayat, Yashpal Sharma and others. She received her second Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in this film. Tisha will soon be seen in the much anticipated Bangladesh-Germany-Russia co production Saturday Afternoon directed by M S Farooki starring along with a multicultural cast including Zahid Hasan, Mamunur Rashid, Parambrata Chatterjee, Eyad Hourani and many others. It is a one shot thriller inspired by the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in 2014. She will also be seen in Mayaboti alongside Yash Rohan directed by Arun Chowdhury and Holudboni, a Bangladesh-India co production alongside Parambrata Chatterjee and Paoli Dam directed by Mukul Roy Chowdhury and Taher Shipon.

Tisha will soon debut as producer in No Land's Man starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and directed by M S Farooki, who will also co produce the film alongside Tisha and Nawaz.

Tisha and director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki were married on 16 July 2010.[7][8]

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