Visionary filmmaker Shyam Benegal was laid to relaxation at this time at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park Electrical Crematorium. His business associates and colleagues paid their final respects to him earlier than his funeral. Naseeruddin Shah was seen teary-eyed as he bid his previous good friend goodbye. His son Vivaan Shah bowed down earlier than him with folded palms.
Boman Irani, Nandita Das, Ronnie Screwvala, Ashoke Pandit, Ila Arun, Ishita Arun, Divya Dutta and Kulbhushan Kharbanda too attended his funeral.
A pioneer of the Indian New Wave, Shyam Benegal handed away on December 23, 2024 on the age of 90. Check out the images.