Amitabh Bachchan’s Tribute To Vikram Gokhale And Tabassum: “Days Are Lined With Sadness”

A file photograph of Vikram Gokhale. (courtesy: vikramgokhaleofficial)

Mumbai:

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Sunday stated the stage is desolated by the absence of artists of giant advantage like Vikram Gokhale and Tabassum. Vikram Gokhale, recognized for a number of Marathi and Hindi movies together with the Bachchan’s Agneepath (1990), died on Saturday as a consequence of multi-organ failure at a Pune-based hospital the place he was present process remedy. He was 77.

Tabassum, recognized for her work as a toddler artiste in a number of Hindi classics resembling Baiju Bawra and Mughal-e-Azam, and likewise as host of widespread Doordarshan discuss present Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan, died final week following cardiac arrest. She was 78.

Bachchan took to his weblog to recollect Vikram Gokhale and Tabassum. “The days are lined with sadness.. friends and colleagues.. artists of huge merit, leave us day by day.. and we listen, see and pray.. Tabassum .. Vikram Gokhle and some dear ones that are close and known…

“They got here to us in our lives… they performed their elements and left the stage empty forlorn and desolate by their absence .. (sic),” the veteran star wrote in his blog.

After Agneepath, Amitabh Bachchan and Vikram Gokhale also co-starred in the 1992 film Khuda Gawah. In 2020, Amitabh Bachchan played himself in the Marathi film AB Ani CD starring Vikram Gokhale. The duo played childhood friends in the Milind Lele directorial.

In a previous blog post, Bachchan had described Tabassum as an “effervescent” all-rounder.

“… They all depart us one after the other .. and it’s past comprehension .. you solely recollect the occasions of their presence and life earlier than the eyes and the thoughts .. and so they ever stay a picture of the time .. unchanged, unfettered and within the freedom of free .. after which they depart , and it can’t be fathomed ..” he had written.

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