Masud Rana
Cover of a typical Masud Rana book titled "Treasure Hunter"
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| Author | Qazi Anwar Hussain |
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| Country | Bangladesh |
| Language | Bengali |
| Series | Masud Rana |
| Subject | Thriller |
| Genre | Espionage/Mystery/Adventure |
| Publisher | Sheba Prokashoni |
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1966 – Current |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Website | https://www.facebook.com/shebaofficial |
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| Created by | Qazi Anwar Hussain |
| Full name | Masud Chowdhury Rana |
| Nickname(s) | Masud Rana |
| Aliases | Masud Kaysar, Morris Renner |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Espionage, Adventurer |
| Family | Justice Imtiaz Chowdhury (Father) Jahanara Imtiaz Chowdhury (Mother) |
| Relatives | Ismat Ara (Aunt) Erfan Chowdhury (Uncle) |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Birth Date & Place | 9th April 1936 Dhaka,Bangladesh |
| Height | 5 feet 11.5 inch |
| Hair / Eyes | Black / Deep Black |
| Rank in ARMY | Major |
| Favourite Weapon | Walther PPK, Knife |
| Best Friend | Brigadier Sohel Ahmed |
| Other Associates | Shohana Chowdhury, Bobby Moorland, Vincent Gogol, Guilty Mia, Salil Sen, Zahed Iqbal, Rupa, Rayhan Rashid, Larry King |
| Expertise | High Reflex, Analytics, Judo-Karate, Emergency/Crisis Management, Explosive Search & Control, Firearms Retention Tactics, Unarmed Tactical Combat, Sniping, Combat Shooting, Sharpshooting, Under Water Combat, Tactical Motor Driving, Knife Combat, Hostage-Negotiation, Archaeology and many others to name. |
| Frequent Villains | Kabir Chawdhury, U Sen, Rudolph Gunther, Jack Lemmon, Chawdhury Khayrul Kabir (son of Kabir Chawdhury), Gustaf Tatavosky |
Masud Rana is a fictional character created in 1966 by writer Qazi Anwar Hussain, who featured him in over 400 novels. Hussain created the adult spy-thriller series Masud Rana, at first modelled after James Bond, but expanded widely. So far 450 books have been published in this series which has gained a lot of popularity in Bangladesh. Written from the 1960s and continuing to present day, books are published almost every month by Sheba Prokashoni, one of the most popular publishing house of Bangladesh. Although Qazi Anwar Hussain started the series, it is an open secret that nowadays he doesn't write it any more. A group of ghostwriters are employed to produce all the new Masud Rana novels.
The Masud Rana books describes the adventures of its eponymous hero Masud Rana, an international Espionage Agent of Bangladeshi origin, closely resembling James Bond in his expertise with weapons and love for women. Although the soul author of the series is Qazi Anwar Hussain, it is known that Hussain liberally extracts segments of plots from popular Western spy thrillers of contemporary period. Nonetheless, the series became a boon for young people in post-war Bangladesh, who had few entertainment alternatives in an era pre-dating cable TV, the web sites and smart phones. The books caused concern among some middle-class parents because of their occasional racy contents, and reading Masud Rana was an activity often frowned upon. The series eventually ran to well over four hundred individual titles.
Apart from the novels, Masud Rana has also been adapted for one Bengali film and one TV Drama.
The character was created in 1966 by Bangladeshi novelist Qazi Anwar Hussain in an attempt to write an adult spy thriller for Bangladeshi readers. According to the preface of "Dhongsho-Paharr" (first book in the series), Hussain was inspired and encouraged by his close friend Mahbub Amin.
Qazi Anwar Hussain took the name for his character from the first name of Hussain's friend, lyricist Masud Karim, and Rana Pratap Singh of the Rajput clan who ruled Mewar, a state in north-western India from 1540 to 1597. Hussain admitted in an 1994 interview that he was heavily influenced by the Ian Fleming character James Bond.
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