Filmmaker Khalid Mahmood Mithu dies in accident

Noted filmmaker and painter Khalid Mahmood Mithu died yesterday after a tree fell on him in Dhanmondi area of the capital yesterday. He was 56. The accident occurred around 2:00 pm as a Krishnachura tree suddenly fell on the rickshaw Mithu was travelling on at Road 4 in Dhanmondi, leaving the filmmaker critically injured. He was rushed to the nearby Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital where doctors declared him dead due to internal bleeding. Noor-e-Azam, officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi Police Station confirmed the incident. His body was taken to his residence around 4:00 pm Khalid Mahmud Mithu was born in 1960 and completed his MFA from the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University in 1986. He was married to noted artist Kanak Chanpa Chakma. Mithu directed his play Dhusor Album in 1993. In 2010, he directed the film Gohine Shobdo which earned him the national film award. His second film Jonakir Alo was selected as the Bangladeshi entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014, but was not nominated. He had also written a book on novelist-filmmaker Humayun Ahmed.

 

Filmmaker Khalid Mahmood Mithu dies in accident

Noted filmmaker and painter Khalid Mahmood Mithu died yesterday after a tree fell on him in Dhanmondi area of the capital yesterday. He was 56. The accident occurred around 2:00 pm as a Krishnachura tree suddenly fell on the rickshaw Mithu was travelling on at Road 4 in Dhanmondi, leaving the filmmaker critically injured. He was rushed to the nearby Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital where doctors declared him dead due to internal bleeding. Noor-e-Azam, officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi Police Station confirmed the incident. His body was taken to his residence around 4:00 pm Khalid Mahmud Mithu was born in 1960 and completed his MFA from the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University in 1986. He was married to noted artist Kanak Chanpa Chakma. Mithu directed his play Dhusor Album in 1993. In 2010, he directed the film Gohine Shobdo which earned him the national film award. His second film Jonakir Alo was selected as the Bangladeshi entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014, but was not nominated. He had also written a book on novelist-filmmaker Humayun Ahmed.