Bollywood director Esmayeel Shroff breathed his last on Wednesday, in Mumbai. He was 62.
Shroff had been admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital almost a month ago after suffering a heart attack.
Esmayeel is known for directing ‘Thodisi Bewafaii’ followed by ‘Agar – If, God and Gun’, ‘Ahista Ahista’, ‘Zid’, ‘Police Public’, ‘Majhdhaar’, ‘Dil Akhir Dil Hai’, ‘Tarkieb’, ‘Bulundi’, ‘Nishchaiy’, ‘Surya’ and ‘Jhuta Sach’.
As several eminent personalities took to social media to pay tribute, veteran actress Shabana Azmi, who worked with Shroff in the 1980 film 'Thodisi Bewafaii' took to Twitter and wrote, "Sorry to hear that director of my film Thodisi Bewafaii and many other films passed away today. My heartfelt condolences to his family and friends."
However, a section of netizens called her out for forgetting to mention the director’s name in her tweet.
Actress Padmini Kolhapure, who also featured alongside Shabana, called Shroff a 'sensitive director' with a 'smiling face'.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Shabana will next be seen in Karan Johar’s 'Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani'.
Actors Dharmendra and Jaya Bachchan will be essaying the role of Ranveer Singh's parents while Shabana plays Alia Bhatt's onscreen mother.
While promoting his comedy gig for Prime Video's 'One Mic Stand', Johar had told PTI in an interview that his upcoming directorial venture was "not just rom-com but more of a family dramedy".
"It's a family film - there's drama, there's comedy but there are a lot of internal family dynamics, which allow you to not slot it as just a rom-com," the filmmaker had said last year.
'Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani' is written by Ishita Moitra, Shashank Khaitan, and Sumit Roy. It is set to arrive in cinema halls on February 10, 2023.
