Career
Ne Win made his film debut in 1959 with Kawleikgyin. Director Chinn Sein cast Ne Win, a nationally well-known footballer, to play the title role in his film about a love story between a beautiful girl and a carefree Rangoon University sportsman. The film's enormous popularity instantly made Ne Win one of the leading men of Burmese cinema. Known as Kawliekgyin Ne Win from then on, he remained a leading man in the 1960s, starring in dozens of films.
Starting in the late 1960s, Kawleikgyin Ne Win successfully switched into older, father-figure roles. He won his two Burmese Academy Awards late in his career in 1969 and 1979.
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