Entertainment Report :
Ekushey Padak winning noted Tagore singer Mita Haque passed away on Sunday. She was 59. She breathed her last at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital in the capital at 6:20am, her brother-in-law Shahin Khan told this correspondent. Mita Haque, who married to noted actor Khaled Khan who died in 2013, was suffering from kidney-related deceases for last five years and used to undergo dialysis on a regular basis.
According to her family sources, Mita Haque tested positive with Covid-19 on March 25 and was admitted to hospital on March 31. However, she tested negative a few days later and returned home from the hospital. On Saturday night, Mita’s blood pressure fell and she was rushed to the hospital again where doctors informed that she had suffered a heart attack. She was then kept on ventilation before eventually losing the battle to her illness.
Mita’s body was kept at Chhayanaut at 11:00am yesterday where her colleagues, students and admirers paid last respects to her. She was buried at the family graveyard at her ancestral home in Monohariya of Keraniganj. She left behind her only daughter Farhin Khan Joyita who is also a Tagore singer.
Born into a musical family on September 6, 1962, Mita Haque received her musical training from maestros including her paternal uncle and late musicologist Waheedul Haq, current Chhayanaut President Sanjida Khatun and musician Ustad Mohammad Hossain Khan, to name a few. She had been a regular performer in the Bangladesh Television and Betar since 1977. Besides her esteemed singing career, Mita Haque was the founder director and teacher of her music school Surotirtho. She served as the head of the Department of Rabindra Sangeet at Chhayanaut, Dhaka and also as the former general secretary and incumbent vice-president of Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammelan Parishad. For her remarkable contribution in the music, she was conferred with Ekushey Padak in 2020 and the Rabindra Puroskar from Bangla Academy in 2017.
