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Bangladesh’s celebrated television actress and former model Mita Noor, 45, was found dead at her Gulshan residence in Dhaka yesterday. |
Gulshan police station sub-inspector, Sabbir Rahman, said police reached the spot at 5:30am and found the actress’ body hanging from the ceiling fan.
According to police, after Mita’s family discovered her hanging body in the dining space, her husband Shah Noor Rahman called in police to bring down the body.
But Mita’s father stopped the police officers, and called in the Criminal Investigation Department crime team which finally lowered the body at around 11am.
From there, the body was taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital for a post-mortem examination. The cause of her death could not yet be ascertained.
Mita’s father Fazlur Rahman said she was having trouble with her husband. “They had a lack of understanding and Shah Noor used to torture her.”
On Saturday evening, Rafiqul Islam, officer in-charge of the Gulshan police station, met Mita and her husband at the former’s office at Niketan to resolve their disputes, a police source said.
A friend of Mita, wishing to remain anonymous, said that she used to be tortured by her businessman husband both “physically” and “mentally,” for working in the
entertainment business.
Mita’s driver Sabuj said, she had been “mentally disturbed” since Saturday and behaved badly with everyone. Earlier in the day, she went to visit her parents at Khilgaon and around afternoon, went to her office at Niketan.
That night, she had dinner with her husband and two sons, Priyo and Tauz, at a restaurant and returned home around 10pm.
It was the last time the actress was seen going out.
Mita Noor made her acting debut in the weekly drama of Bangladesh Television, “Sagar Secha Shad”, which was telecast on January 6, 1989. Riazuddin Badsha was the producer of the drama.
But finally she drew special attention by performing as a model girl in an advertisement of Olympic Battery.
Mita Noor became famous through the TV ad of Afzal Hossain, Aro Alo, Besi Alo, Chchandey Chchandey Mon Matanu…”, in 1992.
She had acted in scores of dramas and ads and played role in the cultural fields in various other ways in the last 24 years.
Besides, she produced and directed several popular dramas.