Veteran theatre actor-director Dinesh Thakur, known for his character roles in Hindi films passed away early this morning (20 September 2012). His demise came after a prolonged illness. The actor-director was suffering from kidney ailments. His end came at a suburban Andheri hospital.
Thakur acted in several acclaimed films like Mere Apne, Rajanigandha and Ghar amongst others to his credit. He appeared as one of the leads in the Basu Chatterjee directed film Rajnigandha which won both the Filmfare Best Movie Award and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best
Film.
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Veteran theatre actor-director Dinesh Thakur, known for his character roles in Hindi films passed away early this morning (20 September 2012). His demise came after a prolonged illness. The actor-director was suffering from kidney ailments. His end came at a suburban Andheri hospital.
Thakur acted in several acclaimed films like Mere Apne, Rajanigandha and Ghar amongst others to his credit. He appeared as one of the leads in the Basu Chatterjee directed film Rajnigandha which won both the Filmfare Best Movie Award and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best
Film.
Thakur, who mostly appeared in character roles in Hindi films, was also a screenwriter and story writer. He is known for writing the story and screenplay of the 1978-made film Ghar that won him the 1979 Filmfare’s Best Story award.
Thakur headed a theatre group called ANK Productions for the last three decades. His oldest and still popular theatre production has been Jis Lahore Nahi Dekhya.
He is 65 is survived by actor-wife Prita Mathur.
Thakur's last rites will be conducted today at the Oshiwara crematorium around 4.30 pm.
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