Adnan completed his education in West Bengal, India. On returning to Bangladesh, he was luckily introduced to a famous Bangladeshi director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, who is also the founder of Chabial, an old and successful production house. Adnan joined Chabial as an assistant director to Farooki. He spent quite a few years learning how to give direction and later moved on to establishing his own production house " Runout Films". Under the leadership of Adnan, Runout has now become a major production house in Bangladesh.
