Once she started, within a few years, she achieved the top position permanently through her fine performances. She considers it a blessing of God that she is Golam Mustafa's daughter. Her father was her best friend, teacher and adviser though he never forced her to do anything against her will. His view of life was that we learn only from our mistakes.
Suborna Mustafa learnt from her father that poetry augments our inner vision, which is very important for an artiste which is why she considers poetry as a part of her daily life and not just a hobby. She enjoys Rabindranath, Jibananda Das, Jasimuddin, Shakespeare, late 19th century English Romantics and T. S. Eliot. The Waste Land by Eliot is her favourite piece.
Among the contemporary poets, she likes Nirmolendu Gun, Shamsur Rahman, Al Mahmud, Abul Hassan and Mahadev Saha.
According to her, acting is something inherent, which practice can only sharpen and develop further.
All the media attract her equally from stage one can learn, while T.V. is an easier medium and the radio is very useful for voice modulation and definitely film is the strongest among all. Her approach to different media is different and that is the secret of her excellence. She thinks films should be the ultimate goal for a promising artiste though she is not happy with the present condition of our local films.
