Pritish Nandy, veteran filmmaker and founding father of Pritish Nandy Communications, dies at 73

Veteran journalist, poet and filmmaker Pritish Nandy handed away in Mumbai on Wednesday, sources near him stated.

Nandy (73), a Padma Shri awardee, died after a cardiac arrest at his house in south Mumbai and his final rites had been carried out within the night, they stated.

In a social media submit, veteran actor and Nandy’s buddy Anupam Kher paid glowing tributes to him.

“Deeply deeply saddened and shocked to know concerning the demise of certainly one of my dearest and closest buddies #PritishNandy! Wonderful poet, author, filmmaker and a courageous and distinctive editor/journalist!” Kher wrote.

“He was my assist system and an ideal supply of power in my preliminary days in Mumbai. We shared plenty of issues in widespread. He was additionally one of the fearless folks I had come throughout. All the time Bigger than life. I learnt so many issues from him. Off-late we didn’t meet a lot. However there was a time after we had been inseparable! I’ll always remember when he stunned me by placing me on the quilt of Filmfare and extra importantly The Illustrated Weekly (magazines edited by Nandy),” Kher added.

Nandy was a former Rajya Sabha member of the Shiv Sena and likewise an animal rights advocate.

His firm, Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC), made movies like ‘Sur’, ‘Kaante’, ‘Jhankaar Beats’, ‘Chameli’, ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’, and ‘Pyaar Ke Aspect Results’ and likewise produced the online collection ‘4 Extra Photographs Please!’ Nandy wrote round 40 books of poetry in English and translated poems from Bengali, Urdu, and Punjabi into English.

Different Bollywood actors additionally paid tributes to the veteran journalist-filmmaker.

“Deeply saddened to listen to concerning the lack of Mr. Pritish Nandy. My heartfelt condolences to his household, buddies, and family members. Might his reminiscence be a blessing and will you discover power on this tough time. Relaxation in peace, sir,” wrote actor Neil Nitin Mukesh “Shocked and saddened to listen to of @PritishNandy Sir’s demise! He was a maverick and wore his many hats with elan! He put so many gifted folks on the map within the film enterprise! Thanks, and farewell, Sir! RIP,” stated one other actor Ranvir Shorey in his condolence message.

In keeping with the web site of his firm PNC, “Poet, painter, famend journalist and editor, tv persona, animal activist, member of Parliament and maker of a few of the finest identified movies of the final decade, Pritish Nandy has modified the face of Indian media many occasions over.” He served as Chairman of PNC, one of many first media and leisure corporations to go public in 2000.

Nandy acquired the Padma Shri, the EM Forster Literary Award, the UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Award, the Worldwide Affiliation Award from the Humane Society of the US, the Mates of Liberation Warfare Honour from Bangladesh, and 100’s of award nominations for the movies PNC has produced, from everywhere in the world, stated the web site.

The corporate described Nandy as a “magician with phrases and a real torch bearer for Unimaginable India”.