Sheikh Arif Bulbon :
After starting corona pandemic and due to lockdown, legendary film actress Farida Akhtar Poppy, popularly known by her stage name Babita, could not go to her son Anik in Canada. Though she talked with her son over video call everyday but the film actress could not get relief not to hug her son closely, according to Babita. For this reason, she was waiting to Canada to meet her son. In the meantime, date of her visa to visit Canada was also expired. She gets the Canadian visa from Singapore. Due to corona pandemic, the process for receiving visa was also stopped. At last, she got the visa and went to Canada last week to meet Anik. As a result, she will celebrate her birthday with her son.
Today is Babita’s birthday. She will turn 67 today. While talking with her Babita told this correspondent over mobile phone on Thursday, “Around two years I couldn’t go to Anik. I felt a lot of pains in this regard. I was really feeling bored with Dhaka’s lonely life. My visa was also expired. Later, as a mother, I applied for visa to the related authority to go to my son in Canada. They gave me permission. I cannot express in a word how much I am feeling good to meet my son here. But I have no excitement about my birthday. Last Wednesday my second uncle died. Due to corona many known persons of my country are dying regularly. For this reason, I am feeling bad. Overall, I have no mentality to celebrate my birthday right now. But it is a likeable matter that I am with Anik. Everybody prays for us as we can remain well. But I do not want to disclose my real age.”
Babita played in role of Anong Bou against late Soumitra Chatterjee in Satyajit Ray’s movie Ashani Sanket. For acting in this film, she got popularity among the film-lovers across the world. Babita-starred this film got Best Film Award in Berlin International Film Award in 1973 and Chicago International Film Festival in 1974. In 1974, this film also won three awards in Kolkata at the national level. For acting in Narayan Ghosh Mita’s Alor Michhil Babita got National Film Award for the first time in 1975. Later, she also got the National Film Award for acting in Mohsin’s Badi Theke Begum and Amzad Hossain’s Noyon Moni. She made a hat-trick to get the National Film Award for three years in a row. She also got the award for acting in movies Pokamakor-er Ghor Bosoti, Ramer Sumoti and Madam Fuli. Till now Babita acted in 290 movies including as a heroine, she acted in 150 movies.
After starting corona pandemic and due to lockdown, legendary film actress Farida Akhtar Poppy, popularly known by her stage name Babita, could not go to her son Anik in Canada. Though she talked with her son over video call everyday but the film actress could not get relief not to hug her son closely, according to Babita. For this reason, she was waiting to Canada to meet her son. In the meantime, date of her visa to visit Canada was also expired. She gets the Canadian visa from Singapore. Due to corona pandemic, the process for receiving visa was also stopped. At last, she got the visa and went to Canada last week to meet Anik. As a result, she will celebrate her birthday with her son.
Today is Babita’s birthday. She will turn 67 today. While talking with her Babita told this correspondent over mobile phone on Thursday, “Around two years I couldn’t go to Anik. I felt a lot of pains in this regard. I was really feeling bored with Dhaka’s lonely life. My visa was also expired. Later, as a mother, I applied for visa to the related authority to go to my son in Canada. They gave me permission. I cannot express in a word how much I am feeling good to meet my son here. But I have no excitement about my birthday. Last Wednesday my second uncle died. Due to corona many known persons of my country are dying regularly. For this reason, I am feeling bad. Overall, I have no mentality to celebrate my birthday right now. But it is a likeable matter that I am with Anik. Everybody prays for us as we can remain well. But I do not want to disclose my real age.”
Babita played in role of Anong Bou against late Soumitra Chatterjee in Satyajit Ray’s movie Ashani Sanket. For acting in this film, she got popularity among the film-lovers across the world. Babita-starred this film got Best Film Award in Berlin International Film Award in 1973 and Chicago International Film Festival in 1974. In 1974, this film also won three awards in Kolkata at the national level. For acting in Narayan Ghosh Mita’s Alor Michhil Babita got National Film Award for the first time in 1975. Later, she also got the National Film Award for acting in Mohsin’s Badi Theke Begum and Amzad Hossain’s Noyon Moni. She made a hat-trick to get the National Film Award for three years in a row. She also got the award for acting in movies Pokamakor-er Ghor Bosoti, Ramer Sumoti and Madam Fuli. Till now Babita acted in 290 movies including as a heroine, she acted in 150 movies.
