A supposed romance, a secret wedding and even a divorce, Shabnur says she has heard it all before, except that none of it happened.
The actress has hit back at Rizvi Ahmed after he made a series of claims about their alleged relationship in recent interviews. Her response was as blunt as it was sarcastic: if his version of events is to be believed, their wedding may have happened only in his “dreams”.
In one interview with RJ Nirob, Rizvi reportedly said he had loved Shabnur for years and had wanted to marry her. Around the same time, he reportedly told Somoy TV that Shabnur had been his former girlfriend.
Then came another claim — that the two had married in 2016 and divorced in 2018.
Shabnur was quick to question the timeline.
In a lengthy Facebook post, she pointed out that Rizvi had reportedly been living in the UK since 1999 and, by his own account, had not returned to Bangladesh during that period. She also said she never travelled to the UK between 2016 and 2018.
“So where and how did this marriage take place? What is the proof?” she asked.
Shabnur added that she had already been married long before the period Rizvi mentioned and said she did not even know him, let alone have a relationship with him.
Her verdict was laced with sarcasm: “Listening to all this, it feels like there was no real wedding between us. Perhaps it was only a ‘dream wedding’.”
But the controversy did not stop at marriage.
Shabnur also rejected Rizvi’s allegation that she blackmailed actor Salman Shah and played a role in his death. She said she first heard his name only after Salman’s death, when he became a state witness in connection with the case.
She questioned how Rizvi could accuse her of blackmail when, according to her, she had never even known him.
Shabnur also denied claims that she carried information between Salman and his wife or engaged in malicious gossip.
“Such allegations are completely false,” she wrote, saying neither her character nor her upbringing would have allowed such behaviour.
She then turned to Rizvi’s earlier statements about Salman’s death.
According to Shabnur, Rizvi, also known as Farhad, became a state witness after his arrest in 1997 over an alleged attempt to abduct Salman’s younger brother, Shaharan Chowdhury, also known as Biltu.
She said Rizvi admitted in a court statement on 24 July 1997 that he had been involved in a plan to kill Salman for Tk1.2 million on 6 September 1996. She said he had spent around nine months in jail before securing bail and later leaving for the UK.
Shabnur also pointed to what she described as a striking contradiction.
Nearly 29 years after Salman’s death, she said, Rizvi has now claimed in two separate interviews that the actor died by suicide rather than murder. He also blamed Salman’s mother, Neela Chowdhury, for the death, she said.
And, for the first time, Shabnur said, Rizvi has also levelled allegations against her.
For Shabnur, the story has left one obvious question hanging: if there was no relationship, no wedding and no divorce, exactly where did this “dream wedding” come from?
