Renowned singer Sadi Mohammad breaths his last

Renowned Rabindra Sangeet singer Sadi Mohammed passed away. The news of his death was received today (13 March) around 9:00pm. The news of his death was confirmed by his brother dancer Shibli Mohammed.

Shibli told a local Bangla daily that even today his elder brother practiced music with tanpura. After evening, he suddenly saw the door of his room closed. Then he broke the door and recovered his hanging body.

It is learnt that on July 8 last year, the singer’s mother Zebunnesha Salimullah (96) died of old age. After the death of his mother, Sadi Mohammed went through a trauma. He was not exactly normal mentally.

Cultural personality Nasir Uddin Yusuf Bachchu said, “I received the news. I am now going to his house.”

Shibli Mohammad, brother of Sadi Mohammad, son of a martyred family, is one of the country's most popular dancers.

Sadi Mohammad's father, Martyr Salimullah, studied Rabindra Sangeet from Bishwa Bharati University in India. In 1971, the house C-12/10 on Taj Mahal Road, Mohammadpur in the capital was one of the hotbeds of the freedom movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Awami League leader Salim Ullah's house used to have regular meetings with the top leaders of the party, Bangabandhu's son Sheikh Kamal also used to come.

On March 23, 1971, father Salimullah flew the flag of Bangladesh drawn by his third son Sadi Mohammad Taqiullah in that house on Taj Mahal Road, and that flag was sewn by Sadi-Shibli's mother Jebunnesha Salimullah. Salimullah's house became the target of attack by non-Bengali Biharis and Pakistani troops on March 26, 1971, due to the flag flying. The whole house was burnt, Salimullah was shot dead.