Dhaka: Media personalities who worked with late actress Parvin Sultana Diti burst into tears while paying tributes after her body was taken to the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) on Monday.

Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, actors and actresses including Alamgir, Rubel, Omar Sani, Champa, Khaleda Akhter Kolpona,  Nasrin, Dilara Yasmin, Rasheda Chowdhury, Kabila, Helal Khan, Ahmed Sharif, Miju Ahmed, producers and directors paid respects to the late actress at BFDC.

After the namaz-e-Janaza there, her body was sent to Narayanganj where she will be buried at her family graveyard after the second janaja.

Celebrated Bangladeshi actress Parvin Sultana Diti died on Sunday after a long battle with brain cancer.

Diti breathed her last at United Hospital in Dhaka at about 4:05pm on Sunday, the hospital’s media wing spokesperson Sagufa Anowar confirmed NTV Online.

The popular film actress of the 90’s was admitted to the United Hospital on 8 January upon her return from India.

She was diagnosed with a brain tumour and underwent a surgery at Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Chennai, India on 29 July last year.

On her return after the operation, Diti again fell ill in November and went under another operation in India.

As there was no sign of improvement in her condition, she was brought back home in January last and admitted to United Hospital.

Diti was married to film actor Sohel Chowdhury who had died in 1998.

She is survived by daughter Lamia Chowdhury, son Shafayet Chowdhury and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn her death. 

Diti won the Bangladesh National Film Award as the best actress in a supporting role in 1987 for her performance in ‘Shami Stri’.

Her best films include Hiramoti, Dui Jibon, Bhai Bondhu, Usila, Lady Inspector, Khuner Bodla, Ajker Hungama, Shesh Upohar, Chorom Aghat, Shami Stri,Aporadhi, Kaliya, Kaal Sokale, Megher Kole Rod, Akash Choya Bhalobasha and Mayamoy.