বাংলা 
English 
Salauddin Lavlu was born on 24 January 1960 at Jugia, Kushtia. He is a Bangladeshi actor, screenwriter and television director. His work is generally a blend of television films and telefilms. His productions are usually comic, and these are generally extremely popular with Bangladeshi audiences.
Among his notable works are Byasto Doktor (2004), Goru Chor (2007), Dhole'r Bady (2008) and Waren (2009); and among his notable telefilms are Ronger Manush (2004), Bhober Haat (2007), Ghor Kutum (2008), Alta Sundari (2009) and Sakin Sarisuri (2009).
In 1979 Lavlu moved to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and joined the theatre group Aranyak Natyadal. There he acted in stage plays until 1985, although his wish was to do something else.
After in-house production began at Bangladesh Television (BTV), he acted in quite a few serial dramas but did not achieve fame. In the early 1990s he began doing something different and started working as a cinematographer. In 1997, after six years of cinematography, he saw the prospect of finding himself as a director.
Between 1997 and 2004, Lavlu directed eight to nine television films. Among these, Dwichokroyan (1997), Gohor Gachhi (1997), Ejon Aynal Laskar (1999), Adhuli (2002) and Ghor (2002) are notable. These works won the praise of critics, and some of the films won various awards. In all these films the picture of rural Bangladesh is exquisitely drawn — something Lavlu has long longed for. Lavlu believes these village-based films of Bangladesh are highly enjoyable, because they hold a treasure of humour. He further believes that, in the village, characters of all kinds of traits can be found with ease, because many ordinary people of all sorts of personalities live in these villages. Lavlu believes it is these people who can create the characters needed for writing a script.
In a recent interview, Lavlu said that since he is himself tied to the village, he feels encouraged to work on village themes.
Everyone living in the village is bound to one another in strong bonds. They are very transparent and simple people, with their small dreams and small wants. They are very conscious of helping the people living around them. The people living in the city, on the other hand, are quite the opposite. They are very much alone; beyond their friends and family, they hardly keep track of anyone else. Moreover, when the roots of most city dwellers lie in the village, and when they watch my plays, they can match their own way of life with the characters in the drama.
--Salauddin Lavlu
From 2004 onwards, Lavlu has directed and acted in many kinds of television serials. Ronger Manush (2004) was the first serial he directed. After the success of that drama, he made several more serials. Since then he has been directing and acting in television serials. Two of the notable ones are Bhober Haat (2007) and Ghor Kutum (2008). Chanchal Chowdhury and Mosharraf Karim acted in both serials. Chanchal Chowdhury is one of Lavlu's favourite actors, because Lavlu considers Chanchal highly capable and talented; Chanchal has acted in most of Lavlu's television serials and dramas.
Alongside the serial dramas, he has acted in and directed many television films, such as Goru Chor (2007), Patro Mitali (2007), Sopner Bilat (2007), Dhole'r Bady (2008), Patro Chai (2009) and Waren (2009). Through these dramas he won success and recognition.
