After fighting with cancer for the last nine months, actress Parvin Sultana Diti finally lost the battle. She took her last breath around 4:05pm on March 20 at the United Hospital in the capital.
Dr Shagufa Anwar, Public Relations and Business Development officer at United Hospital, confirmed the news to the press.
After she was diagnosed with brain cancer on July 25 last year, Diti was taken to Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in India. When her health condition improved slightly, she was brought back to Bangladesh. However, her condition worsened again and she was taken back to India in November.
As her health did not seem to improve, she was brought back to Bangladesh in January and was admitted to United Hospital. She has left behind her daughter Lamia Chowdhury and son Shafayet Chowdhury.
Diti stepped into the film industry through a talent hunt show named Natun Mukher Sondhaney in 1984. Her first big screen venture was Daak Diye Jai, directed by Udayan Chowdhury. Unfortunately the film did not get released.
Her first film was Ami-e Ustad, a directorial venture of Ajmal Huda Khan, following which the 90s film star appeared in more than two hundred films in total.
She played the role of wife to actor Alamgir in Subhash Dutta’s Shami Stri in 1987, for which she was given the National Film Award in a supporting role.