Ankush Hazra is an India film actor who appears in Bengali films. He made his acting debut in the film Kellafate, which was released in 2010. His next film was Idiot, opposite Srabanti. Ankush made his fourth film, Khiladi , with Nusrat Jahan under the banner of Eskay Movies. After that, he worked two joint production projects with Eskay Movies and Jaaz Multimedia of (Bangladesh).
Ankush was born in Bardhaman, West Bengal, however, his family is originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh who moved in West Bengal during partition. He studied in Holy Rock School and East West Model School, both in Talit, Bardhaman. Acting was his passion from childhood. After his schooling, Ankush got a chance to study Electronic engineering in Durgapur, but his actual dream was to become an actor. So, he came to Kolkata and settled here. Besides his acting career, he studied BBA at The Heritage Academy in Kolkata. Ankush prepared under Pijus Saha with acting training from an acting school at Bhowanipore. He also learned dancing under Bivash Chowdhury from the renowned dance School.Bivash Academy of Dance (BAD).
Ankush is a 1986 Hindi movie starring Nana Patekar, which was written, directed, edited and co-produced by N. Chandra. Made at a modest budget of Rs 12 lakh, the film grossed Rs 95 lacs to become surprise hit of 1986, the year when many blockbusters failed.
It is a story of four lower middle class unemployed young men in Bombay who feel disconnected with society and are wasting their lives away when new neighbours, a young beautiful girl Nita (Nisha Singh) and her grandmother, change their perspective. They change their attitude and try and blend in with the normal, honest and hard-working society of 1980s India when Nita is raped at the hands of her employers. However, the culprits are let off for the want of evidence and Nita takes extreme step of suicide. They then take revenge of each and every culprit in a very novel way. It also shows their distrust in the law of the land. The movie has a tragic end with all four getting capital punishment for doing what they thought was correct, specially so when law of land fails to book the criminals for their wrongdoings.