Music director Sachin Dev Burman’s wife Meera Dev Burman, who was in the news recently for languishing at an old-age home here, died on Monday due to illness. She was 84.

“She was seriously ill since the death of her husband, acclaimed music director S D Burman. Pancham (R D Burman’s mother) took care of her till his death,” Meera’s daughter-in-law and playback singer Asha Bhosle said.

“Her condition was deteriorating over the years due to old age and had to be frequently hospitalised. I had just brought her from Lilavati Hospital two days ago to her Santacruz home. She passed away at 5 am,” Bhosle said.
Bhosle had shifted Meera to Sharan, an old-age home for rehabilitation of paraplegics in Mumbai’s Vashi area, about seven months ago. However, Meera was shifted to R D Burman’s house in September.

Meera Roy was born in Comilla in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in March 1923 and later settled in Kolkata. She was a student of Amita Sen, who was trained in Rabindranath Tagore’s Shantiniketan.

S D Burman fell in love with Meera when he met her at the All India Music Conference in Allahabad in 1937. Meera became his student and married him the same year. Burman died in 1975.