Shwe Done Bi Aung (; born Nay Myo Kyaw Thu Aung 17 February 1906 – 11 March 1986) was a Burmese film director, writer, script-writer and composer. He is best known for directing in film Bo Aung Din (1941). Biography Shwe Done Bi Aung was born on 17 February 1906, to parents U Po Shwe Hla and Daw Hla Kay Thi in Nyaungdon, Irrawaddy Division, British Burma. He was eldest of two siblings. He went to Nyaungdon high School. In 1927, he passed the tenth grade. In 1932, while he was working as a clerk in the municipal office, he began wrote Kanhtoo novel for Dagon Magazine. As a student, he wrote the English poem Dying Ahzarni, referring to Bo Aung Kyaw, and won a gold medal in the competition. After that, he was contacted by Dagon Magazine and moved to Rangoon from Nyaungdon. And he wrote novels under the name Shwe Done Bi Aung such as Yay Nat Daewei Padamani (ရေနတ်ဒေဝီပဒမဏိ), Pyi Gyi Myat Shin (ပြည်ကြီးမျက်ရှင်), Tar Thi Yawpiya ( တာသိယောပီယ) and Lay Taw Shin (လေးတော်ရှင်). He was the assistant editor of Dagon Hla Phay, the editor of Dagon Magazine. Then he wrote novels Guerrillas 9 (ပြောက်ကျား၉), The return of Bo Aung Din (ဗိုလ်အောင်ဒင်ပြန်လာပြီ) and Soe Par Nae May (ဆိုးပါနဲ့မေ). In 1934–35, he opened his own library, Burma Tara, and published a novel called Three Colors. He then worked as a script-writer in the British Burma film (Nyunt Myanmar Film). He wrote scripts for the silent films such as Thu Pone Thway (သူပုန့်သွေး), Yee Yee Kutho (ရီရီ ကုသိုလ်), Shwe Phone Thaw (ရွှေဘုန်းတော်) and for the sound films such as Virgin (အပျိုစင်), Beloved Thuzar (အချစ်ဆုံးသူဇာ), Devi Love and Glory (ဒေဝီမေတ္တာနှင့်ဂုဏ်). In 1940–41, he began directed Bo Aung Din (ဗိုလ်အောင်ဒင်), a sound film starring Khin Maung Yin, Ba Chit and May May Win produced by British Burma Film, which became a hit and left in the history of Burmese cinema. During the Japanese era, a real soldier play (တကယ့်စစ်သား ပြဇာတ်) was performed at Kandawgyi Myaing Theater and at the end of the war, a variety of plays were performed at the Kar Htay Theater in Western Rangoon. Then, in the post-war era, he has made silent films such as Mahabandula (မဟာဗန္ဓုလ) (film was not completed), Khun Na Sin Kyal (ခုနှစ်စဉ်ကြယ်) and The Storm of Greed (လောဘမုန်တိုင်း). After 1948, he has made films with sound such as Pwal Khar Nyaung Yay (ပွဲခါညောင်ရေ),