Actor Khaled Khan died in BIRDEM Hospital in the capital Dhaka on Friday night. He was 57. The actor was admitted to hospital on Monday night for motor neuron disease he had been suffering from for about 10 years. As the news of the death spread, his colleagues, friends and members of his family rushed to the hospital. The body will be kept at the Central Shaheed Minar for public viewing from 11:00am. The body will then be sent to his village home at Mirzapur, Tangail the first namaz-e-janaza after the zuhr prayers at Dhaka University mosque.
Khaled was born in Tangail in 1957. While being a student of finance in Dhaka University, he joined Nagarik Natya Sampraday.
He acted in almost all major productions of Nagarik Natya Sampraday. His first direction was Buddhadev Bose’s Kalsandhya, which won him and the production 14 awards in Bangladesh and India.
He has also directed famous plays such as Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Master Builder, Tagore’s Khudita Pashan and Muktadhara and some others.
Khaled was also an enviable presence on television, beginning in the early 1990s.
Khaled acted in many teleplays among among which Rupnagar (1994) stands out.
-With New Age input
