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Bengali actor Dwijen Bandyopadhyay passes away

| @indiablooms | Sep 27, 2017, at 06:20 pm
Kolkata, Sep 27 (IBNS): Bengali Television and film actor, and theatre personality Dwijen Bandyopadhyay, 68, died of a massive cardiac arrest in the wee hours of Wednesday.

According to reports, the senior actor, who had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease, passed away at his south Kolkata residence at around 2:05 am. following a sudden cardiac arrest.

Dwijen Bandyopadhyay was born on September 22 in 1949.

He debuted as an actor in Amritakshar drama in 1978.

Bandyopadhyay performed in several films, TV series and dramas.

His body will be cremated at Keoratala Burning Ghat in the city on Wednesday.


(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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