The news of Tazin Ahmed's sudden demise brought shock and tears into the eyes of her fans. I consider myself lucky to be acquainted with her. She was very close to my heart. Chatting with her for hours seemed few minutes. She was an actress, journalist and social activist. At the age of only 43, the multi-virtuoso young lady left us with utmost shock and hoards of memories. She was a jolly minded, emotional yet practical and above all a friend in need, whom you can call even at midnight. On May 22, she passed away due to cardiac arrest and went to the place from where no one can return.
Tazin Ahmed is the one, whose memory lingers sweetly in our hearts, especially for the Daily Observer Women's Own Team. The news was a tough pill to swallow, hard to fathom for us. She was closely associated with us for nearly three years.
She was the counselor of the problem-solving or question-answer section from 2013 to 2016.
As she started her career with journalism, she was more of a friendly advisor to us than an actress, a philanthropic or writer.
Every week I talked to her about write-up for the problem solving sector, we discussed on many issues, in a long conversation, such a long that we ended up, losing our credits in cell phone. Those things happened many times that we couldn't say bye due to zero balance.
She was an outstanding counselor. She used to take time from her busy schedule for our readers and counseled with their personal problems. We exchanged our problems and came up with solutions with talking for hours. She was very strong lady and dealt with every situation very pragmatically and sensibly. But little did we know she didn't share everything.
She was the one who ever believed in giving, be it to her family members or friends but never expected to get anything back.
Tazin Ahmed always would call back if she couldn't receive the phone for some reasons. But there came a day just a year ago, she stopped calling back and didn't pick up the phone despite repeated try. But I was adamant and kept calling every day and suddenly she picked up. That was the time when I came to know she was suffering from asthma problem. She needed inhalation from hospital and that was the reason she stopped contacting us.
Little did we know that her asthma problem was recurring and she also had heart problem. She dealt with her sickness all alone. There was no one at the time of the actress`s death!
She loved her mother very much. She was used to stay with her mother but recently she started living all alone again. Perhaps there was mental agony that she wouldn't like to share with anybody else.
After graduating in Mass Communication and Journalism from Dhaka University, Tazin Ahmed was involved with journalism in different news media including Bhorer Kagoj, Prothom Alo. She was also the columnist of Ananda Bhuvon magazine.
She scripted more than a dozen of Bengali television drama and directed a few of them. She has started her presentation in 1991 with the program title of 'Chetna', for Bangladesh Television. In 1997 she played in a number of plays for the theatre.
Tazin's two drama titled 'Yatak', 'Jogfol' are produced and directed by her. Her most notable plays are 'Briddhashrom', 'Anur Ekdin', 'Ek Akasher Tara', 'Shomporko' etc.
Tazin Ahmed's paternal house is in Noakhali. However, after losing her father in childhood, she grew up in the house of her grandmother in Pabna, the star grew up there. Then she came to Dhaka in her early age. Her mother's ancestral house was in Adabar. After completing the study, she started acting as a hobby. But she earned huge popularity for her acting skill in the late 90s. Accolades started pouring on her but she kept her feet on earth.
Her thoughts obviously will bring silent tears for those who knew her. Years will roll on but her memories will last long.
