Bayan shekaru biyu da rasuwar darektan finafinai na Nollywood, Biyi Bandele, bayanai na sababbi game da mutuwarsa sun fito fili. Bandele ya mutu a ranar 9 ga Agusta, 2022, a Lagos, a shekarar 54. ‘Yar sa, Temi Bandele, ta sanar da mutuwarsa ta hanyar sanarwa amma ba ta bayyana sababin mutuwarsa ba.
Kamar yadda jaridar Burtaniya ta ruwaito, Bandele ya kashe kansa bayan yawo da edita sa, Hannah Chukwu, game da labarinsa mai suna ‘Yorùbá Boy Running’ a watan Aprailu 2022. Bayan magana, ya aika wata sababbin rubutun labarin zuwa edita sa kafin ya kashe kansa.
Bandele an haife shi a Kafanchan, jihar Kaduna, ga iyaye daga Abeokuta, jihar Ogun. Ya yi karatun wasan kwaikwayo a Jami’ar Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University) a Ile Ife. Shahararriyar sa ta fara bayyana ne lokacin da ya lashe gasar rubutun wasan kwaikwayo ta BBC, bayan haka ya koma Ingila inda ya gina aikinsa na nasara a matsayin marubuci.
Kafin mutuwarsa, ya jagoranci da kuma gyara rubutun fim din ‘Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman’ a shekarar 2022, wanda aka samar dashi daga wasan kwaikwayo na Wole Soyinka mai suna ‘Death and the King’s Horseman.’ Fim din ya samar da EbonyLife Films kuma aka fitar dashi a ranar 28 ga Oktoba, 2022, ta hanyar Netflix.