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Homage to Amjad Hossain at Shaheed Minar

People from all strata have paid tribute to noted director and actor Amjad Hossain.

His body was kept at the central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Saturday at 11:30am.   

He will be buried beside the graveyard of his mother at the village in Jamalpur.  

Earlier on Friday evening, the body of renowned film director arrived in Dhaka from Thailand.

The celebrated film director breathed his last at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok on December 14.

Amjad Hossain suffered a stroke at his residence on November 18. Later, he was taken to the Intensive Care Unit of Impulse Hospital in Dhaka.

On November 27, he was sent to Bangkok by an air ambulance for better treatment after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took the responsibility for his treatment.

Films directed by Amjad Hossain included “Golapi Ekhon Traine (1978),” “Sundori (1979),” “Koshai (1980),” “Jonmo Theke Jolchi (1982),” “Bhat Dey (1984)”, “Golapi Ekhon Dhakay (2006)” and “Golapi Ekhon Bilatey (2010).”

Apart from receiving the National Film Award for several times, he had received many other awards, including the Ekushey Padak in 1992.