Veteran Actor Vikram Gokhale passes
Veteran Bollywood, Marathi films, and stage and television actor Vikram Gokhale passes away. He was 77. His funeral rites were conducted at the Vaikunth Crematorium in Pune. Gokhale had been battling for life for the past over a fortnight and his condition was described as “extremely critical” with multiple organ failures, on Thursday.
Later, medicos said on Friday that his health was improving and he was responding positively to treatment. Son of the prominent Marathi theatre and cinema actor, Chandrakant Gokhale, Gokhale has acted in major Bollywood films like Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s romantic ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ (1999), where he was Aishwarya Rai’s music maestro father; Kamal Haasan’s ‘Hey Ram (2001); as Acharya Yagyaprakash Bharti in ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’ (2007); and in Priyadarshan’s rib-tickler ‘De Dana Dan’ (2009) as a diplomat, and many others.
He donned the director’s hat in 2010 with the Marathi film ‘Aaghaat’ bagged the National Film Award for Best Actor category for his Marathi film ‘Anumati’, and has been conferred the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2011 for his acting in theatre.
