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Neeraj Vora used humour to tackle challenges-Vipul Shah at prayer meet
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Neeraj Vora’s friends remembered the late actor-filmmaker-writer at a prayer meet on Monday
Natasha Coutinho (MUMBAI MIRROR; December 19, 2017)
On Monday, friends and colleagues of Neeraj Vora, who passed away at
age 54 on December 14, gathered at Stree Mandal in Santa Cruz at 5 pm
for his prayer meet. Filmmaker Firoz Nadiadwala, who had airlifted the
late actor-writer-filmmaker from Delhi’s AIMMS to his Mumbai residence,
Barkat, after he went into coma last year, told Mirror, “Religious hymns
recorded on the taar shehnai by Neeraj’s father, Pandit Vinayak Nanalal
Vora, played all through the chautha. It was good to see his friends
and colleagues show up and remember him.”
Filmmaker Vipul Shah
who was also among the attendees, said that even though he hadn’t worked
with Vora on a film, they shared a long association. “He was a genius
but people didn’t get to see all of it, now that untimely death has
taken him away. I have never seen a guy with a better sense of humour.
He used it to tackle all of life’s challenges.”
Vipul recalled that in college, Vora had directed plays and he acted in some of them. “We had no money so we went through some tough times together but he was always spirited. We kept discussing projects. While nothing worked out, our friendship continued.”
Also present at the two-hour prayer meet were director duo Abbas-Mustan, actors Kay Kay Menon and J D Majethia, among others. Pooja Bhatt and Deepak Tijori, who had played the lead in Ashutosh Gowariker’s directorial debut, Pehla Nasha, for which Vora, along with brother Uttank had scored the music, arrived together.
On Monday, friends and colleagues of Neeraj Vora, who passed away at
age 54 on December 14, gathered at Stree Mandal in Santa Cruz at 5 pm
for his prayer meet. Filmmaker Firoz Nadiadwala, who had airlifted the
late actor-writer-filmmaker from Delhi’s AIMMS to his Mumbai residence,
Barkat, after he went into coma last year, told Mirror, “Religious hymns
recorded on the taar shehnai by Neeraj’s father, Pandit Vinayak Nanalal
Vora, played all through the chautha. It was good to see his friends
and colleagues show up and remember him.”
Filmmaker Vipul Shah
who was also among the attendees, said that even though he hadn’t worked
with Vora on a film, they shared a long association. “He was a genius
but people didn’t get to see all of it, now that untimely death has
taken him away. I have never seen a guy with a better sense of humour.
He used it to tackle all of life’s challenges.”Vipul recalled that in college, Vora had directed plays and he acted in some of them. “We had no money so we went through some tough times together but he was always spirited. We kept discussing projects. While nothing worked out, our friendship continued.”
Also present at the two-hour prayer meet were director duo Abbas-Mustan, actors Kay Kay Menon and J D Majethia, among others. Pooja Bhatt and Deepak Tijori, who had played the lead in Ashutosh Gowariker’s directorial debut, Pehla Nasha, for which Vora, along with brother Uttank had scored the music, arrived together.
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