People from all walks of life have gathered at Dhaka’s Central Shaheed Minar for a last chance to pay their final respects to renowned singer and composer Subir Nandi.
The Ekushey Padak winning singer’s body arrived at Shaheed Minar around 11am on Wednesday (May 8).
Afterwards, the body would be taken to Ramkrishna Mission, and then to Baradeshwari Kali Temple and its cremation ground at Sabujbagh, for his last rites and funeral, according to Dr Samanta Lal Sen, Subir Nandi’s physician in Dhaka and the coordinator of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
Subir’s body was taken to Dhakeswari National Temple earlier in the day, after it was brought back to Dhaka from Singapore on a Regent Airways flight early on Wednesday.
Subir Nandi died around 4:30am (BdST) on Tuesday (May 7).
Nandi, an Ekushey Padak winner, was taken to Singapore on Apr 30 under the instructions by the honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
His health condition deteriorated early on Monday (May 6) as he suffered a third cardiac arrest at the hospital.
Earlier, he was taken to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka on Apr 14 after he fell ill while returning to Dhaka from Srimangal by train.
The singer suffered a cardiac arrest soon after he was taken to the CMH emergency department.
In his 40-year singing career, he sang more than two thousand and five hundred songs in Radio, Television and Films.
His first solo album, ‘Subir Nandir Gan’, was released in 1981 and he started his career as a playback singer in 1976 with the film ‘Surya Grahan’.
Nandi received the National award for the fourth times and this year, he was awarded the Ekushey Padak.
His sang many notable songs and prominent among them are: ‘Amar a duti chokh’, ‘Bondhu hote ceye’, ‘Ami bristir kach theke kadte shikhechi’, ‘Chader kolonko ache’, ‘Din jaw kotha thake’, ‘Ekta chilo sonar konna’, ‘Hajar Moner Kache’, ‘Kotoje tomake besechi valo’, ‘Paharer Kanna Dekhe’, ‘Bondhu hote ceye tomar’.
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