Bangladeshi Pornstars: Everyone the Record Documents

The best-documented is Jazmin Chaudhry, born in Chittagong in May 1985, who emigrated to the United States and worked in the American industry from 2004 to 2008 across roughly sixty-six titles. She is the sole member of English Wikipedia’s Bangladeshi performer category, though even that entry is a redirect rather than a biography, and she holds no award or nomination. By public profile the largest name associated with this search term is Yasmina Khan, a leading British adult entertainer who performs as Bengali Goddess — but she identifies as Bengali, which spans the India–Bangladesh border, and no source records which side her family comes from, so we do not describe her as Bangladeshi.

Five people anywhere have both a documented adult-film career and a documented Bangladeshi or Bengali connection, and all five are listed on this page. Four are Bangladeshi by birth or citizenship: Jazmin Chaudhry, Hairy Sam, Riya Barde and Alishaa Mae. The fifth, Yasmina Khan, identifies publicly as Bengali. Not one of the five holds an award or a nomination, two are documented by a single industry database entry apiece, and one is documented through a criminal case rather than a filmography. That is the whole verifiable population, not a shortlist.

No, and there is no legal route to one. The Pornography Control Act, 2012 criminalises production, distribution, possession and viewing alike: production carries up to seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour and a fine to 200,000 taka, possession and distribution up to five years with labour, and material involving children up to ten years and a fine to 500,000 taka. There is no certification route and no exemption in the Act.

Yes, and this is what separates Bangladesh from its neighbours. The Pornography Control Act, 2012 reaches possession and viewing, not only production and distribution. Indian and Pakistani obscenity law both target the seller, distributor, exhibitor or transmitter and do not make the private viewer the offender. Bangladesh does, which is the single most consequential legal difference in the region for this subject.

Bangladeshi is a citizenship — 165,158,616 people at the June 2022 census. Bengali is a language and ethnicity that crosses an international border, shared with the Indian state of West Bengal, which counted 91,347,736 people in 2011. A search for "Bengali pornstar" therefore spans two countries and two separate film industries, Dhallywood in Dhaka and Tollywood in Kolkata, neither of which has an adult wing. Our Kolkata page covers the West Bengal side; this page covers Bangladesh.

Approximately 15,636 sites had been identified and blocked by February 2019, in a campaign that ran from November 2018 under the telecommunications ministry with the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission executing at ISP level. Ad-hoc blocking had begun in March 2009. A rounder figure of nearly twenty thousand circulates for the same campaign; we carry the sourced number and note the discrepancy. VPN access has continued throughout, which the authorities have acknowledged from the start.

The Digital Security Act, 2018 replaced Section 57 of the ICT Act, 2006 and was used heavily — 403 cases and 353 arrests in the first five months of 2020, and the death in custody of the writer Mushtaq Ahmed in February 2021. The Cyber Security Act, 2023 replaced it on 13 September 2023 while retaining most of its provisions. The interim government repealed that Act on 22 May 2025 and introduced the Cyber Security Ordinance, 2025. Check the Ordinance for the current position.

One case comes close and does not quite get there. Yasmina Khan is a leading British adult entertainer who performs as Bengali Goddess and describes herself on her own official links page as the biggest Bengali adult entertainer in the world. That is her own public statement and we report it as such — but Bengali spans the India–Bangladesh border, and no source we could verify records which side her family comes from. Separately, the one performer with a recorded Sylhet birthplace, Hairy Sam, has no recorded country of residence at all, so whether his is a British career is unknown. Britain holds the older and larger Bangladeshi community in the West — 652,535 people at the 2021 census, mostly of Sylheti origin, settled principally from the 1970s, and more than a third of the population of Tower Hamlets — and no unambiguously British-Bangladeshi performer is documented anywhere. We have not found a sourced explanation for that and have not speculated about one.

Because five is what the record contains. Nationality is a factual claim about a real person, and in a country where watching pornography is itself a criminal offence it is a claim that can cost somebody their safety, so we will not pad a list here with people whose connection to Bangladesh is a stage name, a look or a tube-site tag. The section above sets out every search that was run to reach five, in full, including the searches that returned nothing. If a sixth documented case appears, we will add it.

This site publishes portraits only where a Creative Commons or public-domain file exists and the licence can be honoured with proper attribution. Four of the five people here have no such file anywhere — no free-licensed photograph exists of them in the public image record at all. That is a measure of how little these careers are documented, not a decision to withhold anything. Where a usable file exists, as it does for Jazmin Chaudhry, the photograph is on the page.

Because in the cases we checked, no reliable source documents the false label at all. Our Indian pornstars page names mainstream actresses and sets out their actual filmographies because the false association is already public and citable there, so a correction rebuts something real. In the Bangladeshi cases, the association lives on aggregator lists and in social-media chatter, and printing a name beside this keyword would create a permanent indexed association rather than correct one. Our Korean and South Asian regional pages reached the same conclusion.

That material is non-consensual intimate imagery — a crime, not a genre — and its subjects are victims rather than performers. Distribution is criminal in Bangladesh under the Pornography Control Act, 2012. We do not name, describe, link to or count any of it. If images of you have been published without your consent, complaints go through the police cyber units, the major platforms all run non-consensual-imagery reporting channels, and StopNCII.org lets you hash an image on your own device so participating platforms can block it without you uploading it anywhere.

Not until there is something to rank. None of the five holds an award or a nomination, none appears in the branded search-volume export this site uses to measure demand, and two of them have a single documented credit between them — so a ranking would be an ordering of nothing, dressed up with numbers. They are presented instead, in an order the page states plainly: strength of the documented Bangladeshi connection first, then career length. If the documented population grows and acquires something measurable, we will rebuild the page properly rather than append entries piecemeal.