Veteran Writer-Director Sagar Sarhadi Passes Away After Long Illness In Mumbai

Veteran writer-director Sagar Sarhadi, who has been scriptwriter for iconic movies like ‘Noorie’, ‘Bazaar’, ‘Kabhi Kabhie’, ‘Silsila’, ‘Chandni’, ‘Deewana’ and ‘Kaho Na Pyar Hai’ handed away on Sunday in Mumbai, he was 88.

Sagar Sarhadi was admitted to the ICU of a cardiac care hospital in Sion not too long ago following a coronary heart drawback.

He was admitted to the identical hospital after struggling a coronary heart assault in February 2018. Reports say he had utterly misplaced urge for food for meals and water in the previous couple of weeks days. 

Things To Know About Sagar Sarhadi

• Sagar Sarhadi, whose actual identify is Ganga Sagar Talwar was born in 1933 in Abbottabad, now in Pakistan.
• He was a veteran IPTA member who launched artistes like Farooque Shaikh and Shabana Azmi in his inter-collegiate theatre competitions for Khalsa and St Xavier’s within the late 60s and early 70s.
• Sarhadi had been one of many most interesting storytellers within the Hindi movie trade. He had written scripts for films Kabhie Kabhie, Silsila and Deewana that afterward went to grow to be blockbusters.
• His directorial Bazaar starring Smita Patil, Farooq Sheikh and Naseeruddin Shah was a critically acclaimed movie.
• Not many people know that he wrote dialogues for Hrithik Roshan-starrer Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai (2000). Sarhadi earlier than coming into the movie trade, was an Urdu author. He scripted a number of brief tales and performs. Soon because the unhappy information of his demise surfaced, many celebs took to Twitter to supply their condolences.

Reports say Saagar Sarhadi’s funeral ceremony can be round 12 pm in Mumbai.