Bhubaneswar: Popular Ollywood singer Humane Sagar passed away at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar on Monday evening. He was 36.

Sagar, who had been admitted to AIIMS-Bhubaneswar on Friday afternoon in critical condition, with multiple complications, breathed his last at 9.08 pm.

The team of doctors treating him used advanced life-support systems to stabilise him, but all their efforts were of no avail.

There were signs of improvement a day after he was hospitalised. But his wife informed newspersons earlier on Monday that he remained critical and was in no condition to be airlifted to AIIMS-Delhi for better treatment.

“Humane Sagar was admitted to AIIMS-Bhubaneswar on November 14 with diagnosis of Bilateral Pneumonia, Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF), Dilated Cardiomyopathy with severe LV systolic dysfunction, MODS (Multi-organ Dysfunction Syndrome)- Refractory Shock, Severe Respiratory failure, Anuric acute kidney injury, Encephalopathy, Hepatopathy, Thrombocytopenia, Coagulopathy. He did not respond to treatment in spite of all aggressive and advanced care provided by an expert team of specialist doctors and expired at 9.08 pm on 17.11.2025,” informed Dr Srikant Behera, Intensivist and ECMO Specialist, AIIMS-Bhubaneswar.

Glittering career cut short prematurely

A pall of gloom descended on the Odia film and music fraternity as the news of Sagar’s untimely death spread.

Born into a family of musicians — his grandfather and father were music directors — in Balangir’s Titilagarh, Sagar took to music like duck to pond.

He didn’t look back after rising to fame in 2012, when he topped the reality show ‘Voice of Odisha’. Within three years, he made his playback debut in Ollywood with the title track of film ‘Ishq Tu Hi Tu’.

The film was a big hit, and so were Sagar’s songs.

Sagar went on to deliver several blockbuster songs, including ‘Sehzadi O Sehzadi’, ‘Mu Pardesi Chadhei’, ‘Sunn Zara’, ‘Gote Sua Gote Saari’, ‘Tum Mo Love Story’, ‘Nishwasa To Bina Chalena’ and ‘Pyar Bala Hichki’.

He sang more than 150 songs in over 50 films, and close to 200 album tracks, lending his voice to top Ollywood stars Anubhav, Babushan, Sabyasachi and Arindam.