Shamsunnahar Smrity (born 24 October 1992), known by her stage name Pori Moni, is a Bangladeshi film actress. She was one of the highest paid actresses in Bangladesh. She began her career as a model and made her acting debut in the film industry with the film Rana Plaza (2015). She gained widespread recognition for her performance in the movie Dhumketu (2016), which was a commercial success.
Her most notable films include Swapnajaal (2018), Gunin (2022) and Antor Jala (2017). She has won several awards for her performances, she won the Special Critic Award at 21st Meril-Prothom Alo Awards. In 2020, she was listed in Forbes Asia's "100 Digital Stars".
Birth and early life
Pori Moni was born in December 1992 in Singhakali village of Bhandaria Upazila in Pirojpur District, Bangladesh, at her maternal grandparents' home. Her ancestral home is in Baka village of Salabad Union under Kalia Upazila in Narail District. Her family name is Shamsunnahar Smriti. Towards the end of the 1990s, Pori Moni's mother, Salma Sultana, was mysteriously and severely burned in an accident at a residence in Dhaka. At that time, Pori's father, Monirul Islam, felt helpless with his three-year-old child, Pori Moni. He had his burn-injured wife treated at a hospital in Dhaka for a few days, during which he left Pori with her maternal grandfather, Shamsul Haq Gazi. Two months later, Pori's mother passed away while undergoing treatment in the hospital, leaving Pori Moni motherless at the age of three. Belayet Hossain describing Pori Moni's childhood events, further stated that the three-year-old child Pori Moni was raised from then on by her maternal grandparents and maternal aunt.
Later, her father also passed away. Explaining the murder of Pori Moni's father, her younger maternal aunt Taslima Papiya stated that Smriti's father, Monirul Islam, was a police constable in Lohagara Upazila of Narail District. In 2012, he lost his job for a specific reason and since then had been living at his village home and engaging in business. Taslima Papiya further added that she heard opponents might have hacked Monirul to death over a dispute related to that business. Young Pori Moni grew up under the care of her maternal grandfather, Shamsul Haq Gazi, in Pirojpur.
Education
Both of Pori Moni's maternal grandparents were school teachers. She passed SSC from Bhagirathpur Secondary School in Mathbaria Upazila. Afterwards, she enrolled in eleventh grade at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Degree College in Mathbaria Upazila, but did not begin her studies there. According to Jahangir Kabir, the principal of the college, "Smriti came to enroll around 2011–12 with a GPA of 3.5 from Bhagirathpur Secondary School, but after enrolling, she did not attend the college." Instead, while studying for a bachelor's degree in Bengali at Satkhira Government College, she moved to Dhaka in 2011 and learned dancing at the Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts.
Career
Moni's first film, Rana Plaza, based on the Rana Plaza disaster, was denied certification by the Bangladesh Film Censor Board, who stated that it was a national disaster that people may misunderstand. Her second film Bhalobasha Shimaheen was released on 13 February 2015. She co-starred with Shakib Khan in Aro Bhalobashbo Tomay and Dhumketu.
Personal life
Moni married her cousin, Ismail Hossain, in 2010 and divorced him in 2012. She then married footballer Ferdous Kabir Sourav in April 2012. In 2019, Moni was engaged to RJ Tamim Hasan, but later they broke up. In 2020, she was married to film director Kamruzzaman Roni for a short period.
Pori Moni in 2024
In October 2021, she married actor-model Sariful Razz. They have a son, Shaheem Muhammad Punno (also Rajya), born on 10 August 2022. On 31 December 2022, Moni confirmed her separation with Razz via social media later stating that she left his house with son Rajya a day prior. Later on, they patched up and started living together again on-and-off. After alleging several relationships of Razz with other actresses, including Tanjin Tisha, Nazifa Tushi, and Sunerah Binte Kamal, Moni divorced him on 18 September 2023.
29 October 2024, actress Parimony in a program on Bangladeshi OTT platform Hoichoi
In May 2024, Moni revealed that she had adopted a girl, Safeera Sultana Priom, in an online post written on Anandabazar Patrika.
Controversies
On 8 June 2021, Moni accused Nasir Uddin Mahmood, a businessman and politician of the Jatiya Party, of sexual assault on her at the Boat Club in Ashulia, Uttara. She asked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for justice on Facebook. On 14 June, Mahmood and businessman Tuhin Siddique Omi were arrested by the Bangladesh Police, but Mahmood was later released on bail. A week later, Moni was accused of vandalism at the Gulshan All Community Club. The club's president, K.M. Alamgir Iqbal, accused her of vandalizing the club on the night of 7 June at a press conference. However, on 18 April 2024, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) submitted an investigation report that found proof of a murder attempt on Nasir Uddin Mahmud by Pori Moni and her costume designer Junayed Bogdadai Jimmy and vandalism inside the club.
Detention
On 4 August 2021, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided Moni's house in Banani. She was arrested on alleged charges of possessing lysergic acid diethylamide, crystal methamphetamine, and 30 bottles of foreign liquor from the house. On 5 August, Dhaka court magistrate Mamunur Rashid granted a 4-day remand against Moni, film producer Nazrul Islam Raj, and two of their associates in connection with separate narcotics cases filed under the Narcotics Control Act 1990. On 31 August, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Kayes granted Moni bail and she was released the next morning after 27 days of detention.
↑Sources differ regarding the exact time of Pori Moni's mother's death. According to some sources, her mother died between 2007 and 2008, but most sources agree that Pori Moni was two and a half to three years old at the time of her mother's death. Additionally, Pori Moni stated in a media interview that she was two and a half years old when her mother died. There are sufficient reasons and evidence to consider the first opinion, i.e., the 1995–96 timeline, as accurate.
↑Belayet Hossain is the headmaster of South Singhakali Government Primary School, the school where Pori Moni studied in her early life, where Pori Moni's maternal grandmother, Fatima Begum, was a former teacher. After Fatima's death, Belayet became the headmaster of that school.
↑A similar account was described by Mohammad Jahangir Kabir, principal of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Degree College, who was a student of Pori Moni's maternal grandfather Shamsul Haq Gazi during the establishment of Bhagirathpur School when Gazi served as the founding headmaster.
↑Reporter, Staff (20 July 2021). "কে এই পরীমনি কীভাবে উত্থান". Daily Inqilab (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 13 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
↑Qadir, Manzoor (4 April 2015). দর্শকদের পাগল করে দেব: পরীমনি[The audience will go crazy: Pori Moni]. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 16 December 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
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