Hashu Mohammed

Hashu is an Actor & Comedian of British Bangladeshi descent born on May 10th, 1992 in Birmingham, UK to Khaleda Begum & Askar Ali. His parents came from Bangladesh in the 1970s to the UK with hopes to create a better life and set up a restaurant in the 1990s in Northfield, Birmingham. In what was then a pre-dominantly non-multicultural area, Hashu attended a church school where he discovered his love for arts through singing hymns and school plays. In order to make his parents happy, Hashu suppressed his creativity for much of his early life focussing more on being academic and studying subjects that were more traditionally studied by people from a South Asian background. After graduating with a 1st class integrated masters in Engineering with Business Management from the University of Birmingham, Hashu began to rediscover his love for the arts after setting up his YouTube channel in 2017 under the alias 'SMASHBengali'. Focussing primarily on creating content that draws on his upbringing and cultural identity, Hashu built an online community who he referred to as "The Gushti" which translates to "Family" in his mother-tongue Bengali. Hashu made his debut on television by being a contestant on season 3 of Channel 4's hit reality show "The Circle" where he stole the hearts of the nation by impersonating his 63 year old Uncle - Syed Islam.