Pritish Nandy, the Indian poet, producer and filmmaker, has handed away on the age of 73.
Born in 1951 in Bihar, he produced many movies similar to Bollywood Calling, Sur, Kaante, Chameli and Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, amongst others. Quite a few figures in Indian leisure have been paying tribute to the influential determine, whose dying was confirmed to native information websites by his son, Kushan Nandy.
Nandy additionally produced comedy-drama 4 Extra Photographs Please!, which gained an Worldwide Emmy nomination in 2020, and romantic anthology sequence Trendy Love Mumbai for Prime Video.
He was additionally a prolific journalist, serving because the publishing director of The Occasions of India Group in addition to editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, The Impartial, and Filmfare within the Nineteen Eighties. He was additionally a recipient of India’s civilian honor, the Padma Shri, in 1977, in addition to an Worldwide Humanitarian Award in 2012.
Many Bollywood stars paid their tribute on-line to Nandy, together with Indian director Sudhir Mishra, actor Sanjay Dutt, and actor-director Anupam Kher.
Nandy’s daughters, Rangita Pritish-Nandy and Ishita Pritish-Nandy, and son Kushan have all had careers in filmmaking.
