ATM returns home from hospital
Veteran actor Abu Taher Mohammad (ATM) Shamsuzzaman returned home Wednesday after four months of hospitalisation. His wife Runee Zaman has confirmed the news.
ATM Shamsuzzaman had been hospitalised in the capital's Asgar Ali Hospital and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University since April. The actor underwent several surgeries during last few months. Though Shamsuzzaman back to home but he will be kept under doctor's observation.
The actor said, "I am very happy that I came to home. I expressed my gratitude to the Almighty Allah. Then, I pay my heartiest thanks to Bangabandhu's daughter and our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Not only that she has given me financial support, she also has given instruction to doctors to take care of me. I am very much grateful to her. I am very thankful to my better-half Runee. Without her I was not able to recover again."
ATM Shamsuzzaman was born on September 10 in 1941 in Noakhali. His film career started in 1961, as the assistant director in Udayan Chowdhury's Bishkonna.
Later he gained popularity as an actor for his role in Amzad Hossain's Noyonmoni. He was awarded with the Ekushey Padak in 2015. He won the Bangladesh National Film Awards five times for the movies: Dayee Ke (1987), Madam Fuli (1999), Churiwala (2001), Mon Bosena Porar Table-e (2009) and Chorabali (2012).
