Veteran journalist, filmmaker Pritish Nandy dies at 73; Kher calls him ‘courageous editor’

Kareena Kapoor, who starred within the 2004 movie “Chameli”, produced by Pritish and daughter Rangita’s Pritish Nandy Communications, took to her Instagram tales and shared photos from the units to pay a tribute to her producer.

{A photograph} had Kareena having a dialog with Pritish between pictures. She captioned it with a pink coronary heart, folded palms, and infinity emojis with the images.

“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 proficient 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 character, animal activist, member of Parliament and maker of a number 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 firms 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 america, the Pals of Liberation Struggle Honour from Bangladesh, and 100’s of award nominations for the movies PNC has produced, from all around the world, stated the web site.

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