Actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar dies

Veteran Bollywood actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar, who essayed villainous and comic roles with equal ease and gave powerful performances in Ardh Satya and Sadak, died on Monday after battling lung infection. Amrapukar, who was 64, died at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai.

‘Sadashiv Amarapurkar was suffering from Interstitial Lung Disease and passed away peacefully at 2.45 am,’ his daughter Rima Amrapurkar said. The body of Amrapukar will be kept at Bhaidas Auditorium, Vile Parle west today to enable people to pay their last respects.

Amrapukar’s last rites will be performed at his native place in Ahmednagar district on Tuesday, Rima said.

Prime minister Narendra Modi and the Bollywood fraternity took to Twitter to condole the death of Amrapukar.