Barsha sues Ananta for ‘assault’

Afia Nusrat Barsha, one of the leading actresses in Bengali film, has filed a police complaint against her husband actor, director and producer M A Jalil Ananta, accusing him of physically assaulting her.

Mohammadpur Police Station’s Officer-In-Charge Azizul Haque told bdnews24.com that Barsha, a resident of Iqbal Road in Mohammadpur, filed the General Diary at midnight Friday.

The police official said that Ananta also came to the police station after a while and tried to resolve the matter.

They left the police station together half an hour later.

Hailing from Sirajganj district, the couple married on Sep 23, 2010

Starting her career as a model, Barsha made her feature film debut in Iftekhar Chowdhury's 2010 action film ‘Khoj: The Search’ with another newcomer Ananta – a breakthrough movie for them.

Barsha has also starred in high budget films ‘Hridoy Bhanga Dheu’ and ‘Most Welcome’ – all with Ananta being the male protagonist.

Barsha is now a brand ambassador of Grameenphone.

Ananta is also a businessman who first invested in a garment venture after graduation. He started working on his first movie, ‘Khoj: The Search’, in 2009 and completed it in 2010.

The businessman-turned-actor, whose movies have become a source of entertainment for cinemagoers, himself became a source of bemused discussion.

Jalil had appeared on a talk show of Somoy Television last year where he recounted an anecdote with much gusto about how he had strived to dispel the common misconception about Bengali movie stars.

Conspicuous with his face-painted sideburns, Ananta said on the show – broadcast over the long Eid vacation – that he had been to a restaurant where a bunch of 'unsavoury' youths called out to their fellows that there was a Bengali movie star in the restaurant.

Jalil had taken serious exception and recounted how he had put them in their place.

The Dhallywood action movie star told the audience that he had instead, asked them, "(Are) you pom (from) Gana (Ghana)?", "You think Bangla chhobi (films) hero means they are uneducated?" He continued, "You are living in Bangladesh, ok, man, you have to respect Bangladesh because you are eating food from Bangladesh."