Chandra Barot, director of Amitabh Bachchan’s prestigious film ‘Don’, passed 86

Veteran filmmaker Chandra Barot, who is known for Helling to Amitabh Bachchan’s 1978 Panth Classic MalayHe died on Sunday (20 July) at a hospital in Mumbai. He was 86 years old.

Chandra has been battling ‘Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis’ (lung IPF-fibrosis) for the last 11 years and was receiving treatment at Guru Nanak Hospital according to his family. “Chandra died due to heart arrest due to chest infection at Guru Nanak Hospital at 6.30 am today. He had an IPF, which has been fibrosis of the lungs for the last 11 years,” his wife, Deepa Barot said. PTI,

Farhan Akhtar, who is directing the third film in renewed Malay The franchise, paying homage to Chandra on Instagram, wrote, “The director of OG Dawn is no one else. Rip Chandra Barot-G. deep condolences to the family.”

Born in Tanzania and grew up, Chandra worked at Barclayz Bank in Dara-S-Salam, before the racial upheaval forced him to leave the country in 1967. In India, he followed his passion in filmmaking and included late experienced actor-director Manoj Kumar as an assistant director, as was working in films like such as Purba and Pachim, memorable, Noise AndBread Capada and House,

In 1978, he made a film that he will be remembered forever: Amitabh Bachchan-Starr, MalayThere was a script that was written by Salim -Javed. However, the Pandits recalled him for the reason that he directed the film to the first place. Chandra wanted to help his friend, cinematographer-producer Nariman Irani, who had allegedly suffered a terrible financial loss due to 1972 failure Life lifeafter MalayChandra defeated Bengali film Ashrita Returned to Hindi cinema in 1989, and 1991 Love heart,

Later projects of Chandra, Hong Kong Wali Script And Neil’s gathering …. impossibleNever seen daylight.

However, Malay lived on. In 2006, the film was rebooted in a new franchise by director Farhan Akhtar and leading star Shah Rukh Khan. They re -joined a sequel, 2011 again Don 2: Raja is backFarhan is now making third Malay The film mainly with actor Ranveer Singh.

Heritage of Malay Moving beyond Bollywood, Rajinikanth, Ajit Kumar, Prabhas and Mohanlal paves the way for rendering.

Chandra Barot is alive by his wife and a son. The news about Chandra’s death has shocked the film industry. Fans, well -wishers and colleagues of the film fraternity are expressing their condolences.

(With input from PTI)