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The body of renowned filmmaker and actor Amjad Hossain was brought back to Dhaka on Friday evening, seven days after his death.
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, carrying the body, from Thailand landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 7:05pm, reports UNB.
Amjad's body will be taken to his residence in the city's Adabar area after the first Namaj-e-Janaza at Mohamampur Baitul Aman Mosque. Then it will be kept at the Birdem Hospital mortuary.
The body will be taken to the Central Shaheed Minar on Saturday for the people to pay their last respects from 11am to 12pm.
It will then be taken to ATN Bangla office, Bangladesh Film Development Corporation and Channel I office.
He will be laid to rest in his village home in Jamalpur.
The veteran director breathed his last at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok on December 14. He was taken there on November 28. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took care of his medical bills.
He was admitted to the intensive care unit of Dhaka's Impulse Hospital and was on life support after suffering a stroke at his residence on November 18.
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed deep shock at the death of the prominent director.
Amjad, born on August 14, 1942, had shown an interest in arts and literature at an early age.
Apart from receiving multiple national film awards, he also won many accolades during his career spanning nearly half a century. He received the Ekushey Padak in 1992.
Some of his notable films are - "Golapi Ekhon Train-e" (1978), "Sundori" (1979), "Koshai" (1980), "Jonmo Theke Jolchhi" (1982), "Dui Poysar Alta" (1982), "Bhat Dey" (1984), "Golapi Ekhon Dhakay" (2006), and "Golapi Ekhon Bilatey" (2010).