The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Noted playwright, actor, director and filmmaker Abdullah Al Mamun was laid to rest at 3:30pm at the Banani graveyard in the city amid tears of hundreds of people of all walks of life yesterday.

He was buried beside in the grave of his wife Farida Mamun who died in 1984. His children, relatives, friends, colleagues, admirers and well-wishers were present during the burial. A number of organisations placed wreaths at his grave.

Several hundred people including teachers, students, artistes, dramatists, writers and other cultural personalities and activists attended his namaj-e-janaza at 2:00pm at the Central Mosque of Dhaka University.

His body was taken there from the Central Shaheed Minar at 12:30pm. Group Theatre Federation, of which Mamun was an integral part, and Shammilita Sangskritik Jote jointly organised the public event.

Fans, colleagues, well-wishers and students flocked to the Shaheed Minar and offered flowers to pay their last respects to him.

Awami League leaders Abdur Razzak, Tofail Ahmed, Suranjit Sengupta, JSD General Secretary Jafar Sajjad and representatives from other political and socio-cultural organisations went to the Shaheed Minar.

Earlier, Mamun's body was taken from BIRDEM mortuary to the Central Shaheed Minar. His coffin was taken there from the BIRDEM mortuary at 10:00 am.

Abdullah Al Mamun died of cardiac arrest at 11:25am at the BIRDEM

Hospital in the capital on Thursday. He was 66.

Mamun was admitted to the Square Hospital on July 10 after suffering brain haemorrhage. He had been also suffering from diabetes, hypertension, kidney and liver complexities. He underwent a brain surgery on July 13 and had been kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital. A medical board was formed on that day. He was shifted to BIRDEM Hospital on August 19 as his condition deteriorated.