Shakila Zafar

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Shakila Sharma (known as Shakila Zafar; born 28 February 1962) is a Bangladeshi singer.^[2] Zafar's career began as a result of her appearance in the 1983 BTV program Jodi Kichu Mone Na Koren where she performed an astrology themed song "Tula Rashir Meye".^[3]

Zafar was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She grew up in Pakistan with her family. Her family belongs to Sirajganj District, Bangladesh.^{[citation needed]} Her father was a government employee of Pakistan. He was assigned to the Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan. In 1970, Shakila came to Bangladesh and was admitted in the Willes Little Flower School. She followed this with graduation from Dhaka University, in philosophy.^{[citation needed]}

Zafar's fifteenth album,^[4] Labonye Purno Pran, was her first solo album of Rabindra Sangeet. It contains ten songs selected and arranged by Tagore song exponent Chanchal Khan. It was recorded in Kolkata and released on the G-Series label in April 2011.^[5]

Shakila first married Manna Zafar. She took the surname "Zafar" to her name after marriage. Together they have a son, Mufrad Zafar. Mufrad is engaged to singer Sanzida Mahmood Nandita since 2024.^[6] The couple later got divorced. In December 2015, Shakila married Ravi Sharma, an Indian poet and engineer, who is a former CEO of Adani Power and was also CEO-South Asia at Alcatel-Lucent.^[7] She then took the surname Sharma.^[1]

• Shakila Zafar at IMDb
• Shakila Zafar at the Bangla Movie Database (in Bengali)

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