{"id":320085,"date":"2020-02-18T05:37:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320085"},"modified":"2020-02-18T05:49:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:49:19","slug":"bengali-actor-and-former-mp-tapas-paul-passes-away-at-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bengali-actor-and-former-mp-tapas-paul-passes-away-at-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengali actor and former MP Tapas Paul passes away at 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320086 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tapas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/tapas.jpg 464w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/tapas-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/tapas-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/tapas-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/>Bengali actor and former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Tapas Paul passed away early Tuesday in Mumbai after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 61.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Paul who had gone to Mumbai to visit his daughter, complained of chest pain at the Mumbai airport and was rushed to a hospital but died early morning today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Paul was a two-term MP from Krishnanagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is survived by his daughter and wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed shocked to hear about the demise of Tapas Paul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSaddened &amp; shocked to hear about the demise of Tapas Paul. He was a superstar of Bengali cinema who was a member of the Trinamool family.Tapas served the people as a two-term MP and MLA. We will miss him dearly. My condolences to his wife Nandini, daughter Sohini &amp; his many fans,\u201d Mamata tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In December 2016, Paul was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Rose Valley chit-fund scam. He was released after serving a 13 months sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He made his Bollywood debut in Hiren Nag\u2019s Abodh (1984) opposite Madhuri Dixit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengali actor and former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Tapas Paul passed away early Tuesday in Mumbai after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 61. According to the sources, Paul who had gone to Mumbai to visit his daughter, complained of chest pain at the Mumbai airport and was rushed to a hospital but died early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[12600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320089,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320085\/revisions\/320089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}