Mumbai: Veteran actor Sameer Khakhar, greatest recognized for his roles in TV exhibits akin to Nukkad and Circus, handed away at a hospital right here on Wednesday morning because of a number of organ failure, his youthful brother Ganesh Khakhar stated. While the movie business was nonetheless recovering with the sudden demise of actor Satish Kaushik, the passing away of Sameer Khakhar has come as a giant blow to your entire fraternity.
Sameer Khakhar was 71 and is survived by his spouse. The final rites of the actor shall be held at 10.30 am at a crematorium in Borivali as we speak.
Ganesh stated Sameer Khakhar was admitted to MM Hospital in Borivali in suburban Mumbai on Tuesday morning following respiratory points. “He had respiratory problems since yesterday and later he went into an unconscious state, so we had called the doctor at home and he asked us to hospitalise him. He was admitted to the intensive care unit of MM Hospital. Slowly and gradually, he suffered multiple organs failure, he was unconscious and then he collapsed. He passed away at 4.30 am today,” Ganesh Khakhar informed PTI on Wednesday.
Some of Sameer Khakhar’s notable work contains TV present Shrimaan Shrimati, and movies akin to Parinda, Salman Khan-starrer Jai Ho, Sidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra’s Hasee Toh Phasee, Sudhir Mishra-directed Serious Men, and Vikas Bahl’s web-series Sunflower.
His most memorable function maybe was Khopdi within the traditional TV serial Nukkad. His most outstanding function was within the dialogue-free ‘Pushpaka Vimana’ (1987) of the alcoholic businessman who will get kidnapped by the hero – Kamal Haasan.
(With PTI inputs)
