Prakat Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 Veteran actor AK Hangal passed away today at Asha Parekh Hospital. He was 95. Yeh sannatta aap ke liye hai dadu :hatsoff::icflove:
DomainK Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 wow, he was a freedom fighter. A man who mostly played smaller roles, but everyone knew him well by name. Be it Sholay's Imam Saheb or Aandhi's Ramu Kaka, he always left an impression. Some of my Bollywood's best memories are associated with A.K. Hangal. RIP.
gaurav92 Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 RIP AK Hangal Saahab :(( Fabulous actor, suited in every role :hatsoff:
CasualVisitor Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 Was a good actor than he is credited for. RIP Hangal saab!
Prakat Posted August 26, 2012 Author Posted August 26, 2012 Why so sad g92? He was 95! :regular_smile:
Crookbond Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 ^ He had a bet that he would pass at 92 and named his username to g92. Now he needs to change to g95. :headshake:
gaurav92 Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 Why so sad g92? He was 95! :regular_smile: Its sad to see so many Legends dying in the film industry. Anyways, even though he was 95, we have a lost an artist who looked good in every role he played.
Texy Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 yesterday we lost the first man to land on the moon... even worse, we lost the first Man on Earth as well .... RIP to old man of bollywood Mr. Hangal
DomainK Posted August 27, 2012 Posted August 27, 2012 Apparently no big star went to his funeral. The biggest star present was Ila Arun.
veer Posted August 27, 2012 Posted August 27, 2012 RIP... i was just going through his Bio on wiki.. some interesting information there.. he was jailed for three years for being a communist.. Born into a Kashmiri Pandit family, he spent his childhood in Peshawar, where he had performed in theatre for some major roles. His father's name was Pandit Hari Kishan Hangal.[7][8] However, his primary occupation for the early part of his life was that of a tailor.[9] He was an active participant in the Indian freedom struggle from 1929-1947. He joined Shree Sangeet Priya Mandal, a theater group in Peshawar in 1936 and continued to act in many plays in pre Partition Pakistan till 1946.[10]Following his father's retirement, the family moved from Peshawar to Karachi. He moved to Bombay after the Partition of India in 1949 after 3 years in prison in Pakistan. He was involved with the theatre group IPTA along with Balraj Sahni and Kaifi Azmi, both of whom had Marxist leanings. He was jailed because he was a communist[11] in Karachi for two years from 1947-1949 and after his release came to India and settled in Mumbai.[12]He later acted in many plays in theaters in India from 1949-1965.
Prakat Posted August 28, 2012 Author Posted August 28, 2012 pre Partition Pakistan Paki hacktivists working overtime I see. :hehe:
ViruRulez Posted August 28, 2012 Posted August 28, 2012 R.I.P. Sad that none of the big stars went to his funeral or his prayer meet. Anpuam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar etc. were the highest level of Bollywood celebrities at his prayer meet. Sad to see that none of 70s and 80s star could not even spare a few minutes for the person with whom they worked with in several movies. Even Big B or Dharmendra who were there in Sholay did not visit him. Sad to see the state of affairs. When Rajesh Khanna's funeral became a high profile event, everybody went but nobody went to Hangal Saab's prayer meet too because they could not get the 15 seconds of fame as in the former one. Nobody from Rajesh Khanna's family too who had worked with A K Hangal for more than 15 movies.
Crookbond Posted August 28, 2012 Posted August 28, 2012 Funerals have become another networkig event these days. Heck the 26/11 site became a networking event! :facepalm:
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