Family, fans bid adieu to Pran
Amidst the absence of present-day celebrities of tinsel town, Pran, 93, who passed away after a prolonged illness on Friday night, was given a final farewell on Saturday.
However, members of his family, fans and close friends thronged the Shivaji Park crematorium to bid adieu to the veteran actor. The actor’s sons Arvind and Sunil performed his last rites.
The final journey of legendary actor Pran began on Saturday morning from Lilavati Hospital, where he breathed his last on Friday evening.
A flower-decked ambulance carrying the 93-year-old actor’s body left the private hospital in Bandra for Shivaji Park, Dadar where the last rites took place.
“We decided to take the body directly to Shivaji Park crematorium, instead of taking it home,” said Pran’s daughter Pinky.
Bollywood personalities were neither spotted at the crematorium, nor at the hospital, where a large contingent of mediapersons was present.
Though Bollywood personalities, including Amitabh Bachchan, Karan Johar, Shatrughan Sinha, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa, Gulzar, Raza Murad, Tinu Anand and Kiran Kumar, were spotted at the crematorium, present-day celebrities of Hindi cinema gave the funeral a miss.
However, a host of Bollywood celebrities, both old and young, took to Twitter to express their grief following the thespian’s demise.
After attending the funeral, Murad tweeted, “It is sad that a man who gave 70 years of his life to Bollywood, you cannot give 70 minutes for him.”
The veteran actor, whose real name was Pran Krishan Sikand, appeared in over 400 films.
between 1940s and 1990s and played both positive and negative roles.
Born into a wealthy family in Delhi, Pran was educated in Lahore. After pursuing a course in photography in Lahore, he moved to Mumbai in 1945, where he first tasted success with the Dev Anand, Kamini Kaushal-starrer Ziddi.
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