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Bazaar Director Sagar Sarhadi Passes Away; Hansal Mehta, Jackie Shroff, Anubhav Sinha Mourn His Death

Filmmaker Sagar Sarhadi is no more. Hansal Mehta, Jackie Shroff, Anubhav Sinha, Javed Akhtar and more express grief

Saheli Maity

Mon Mar 22 2021, 13:25:53 7400 views
Filmmaker Sagar Sarhadi breathed his last today. He was known for his work on films like Noorie, Bazaar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Chandni, Deewana and Kaho Na Pyar Hai. After the huge success of Kabhi Kabhie, he even won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue for hiswork. Confirming the news of his death, ANI tweeted, "Veteran writer-director Sagar Sarhadi passes away in Mumbai." Mourning the loss, director Hansal Mehta, Jackie Shroff, Anubhav Sinha, Javed Akhtar, Ashoke Pandit and more too to their Twitter handles to express grief over his death. Hansal tweeted, ‘Rest in peace Sagar Sarhadi saahab.’ 

While Shroff shared a picture of the filmmaker and wrote, "Will Miss You......  R.I.P". Poonam Dhillon commented on Jackie’s post and wrote, “RIP Sagar saab. You wrote my film NOORIE too besides Kabhi Kabhie , Silsila etc - you have done incredible work which will be there forever.” Lyricist Javed also expressed grief and wrote, “Sagar Sarhadi a veteran theater and film writer who wrote films like Kabhi kabhi , Noori and directed Baazaar has passed away . My heart felt condolences to the late bachelor’s nephew Ramesh Talwar.” 

Whereas Pandit tweeted, “Sad to know about d demise of Sagar Sarhadi ji a well known writer,director due 2 heart attack .  Some of hs well known films as writer wr #KabhieKabhie #NOORIE #chandni #DoosraAadmi #Silsila .  He also wrote &directed #Bazaar. It’s a great loss to d film industry.”

May his soul rest in peace.


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