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Family members, friends, and colleagues from the movie and tv manufacture bid a tearful adieu to seasoned histrion Satish Shah, who was cremated present connected Sunday (October 26, 2025).
Industry seasoned Naseeruddin Shah, his woman Ratna Pathak Shah, who was besides Mr. Satish Shah's co-star successful "Sarabhai vs Sarabhai", different actors from the fan-favourite show, and members of the movie fraternity attended the last farewell.
Mr. Satish Shah passed distant connected Saturday (October 25) astatine the property of 74 pursuing a kidney ailment. He is survived by his wife, Madhu Shah, a designer.
The past rites were conducted by Mr. Satish Shah’s idiosyncratic adjunct Ramesh Kadatala astatine the Pawan Hans crematorium successful Vile Parle.
"He [Ramesh] has been similar his [Shah] son. He has been with the mates for adjacent to 40 years. It’s a idiosyncratic nonaccomplishment for him. He has devoted his full beingness to them. Now, helium has to instrumentality attraction of Madhu ji, who is suffering from Alzheimer's. She doesn’t recognise people. She lone realised this greeting astir [Mr. Shah’s demise]," movie shaper Ashok Pandit told PTI.
Actors Rupali Ganguly and Rajesh Kumar, co-stars of Mr. Satish Shah successful "Sarabhai vs Sarabhai", turned affectional arsenic they bid him a last goodbye.
Mr. Satish Shah essayed the relation of Indravadhan Sarabhai, the comic and lovable patriarch of the Sarabhai family, who elicited laughs with his witty one-liners connected the show.
Others from the "Sarabhai vs Sarabhai" team, including actors Sumeet Raghavan, Anang Desai, Paresh Ganatra, shaper J.D. Majethia, writer-director Aatish Kapadia, and actor-director Deven Bhojani, besides attended the funeral.
The actor’s adjacent friends and colleagues, Pankaj Kapur, Supriya Pathak, Swaroop Sampat, Suresh Oberoi, and Poonam Dhillon, were besides present.
Other members of the movie fraternity, including Neil Nitin Mukesh, Dilip Joshi, Farah Khan, Jackie Shroff, Ali Asgar, Tiku Talsania, Sudhir Pandey, Sharat Saxena, and Avatar Gil, besides attended the past rites.
In a video connected societal media, Mr. Majethia, writer-director Aatish Kapadia, actor-director Deven Bhojani, Ms. Rupali Ganguly, Mr. Raghavan, Rajesh Kumar, and Paresh Ganatra, were seen paying tribute to the precocious histrion with the rubric opus of "Sarabhai vs Sarabhai".
Mr. Kumar took to societal media to station the video and wrote, "The last bye.. could not person been implicit without #sarabhai song… Long Live Indu kaka, did you hear… I besides tried to sing?" Mr. Majethia said it was their mode of "celebrating" Mr. Shah.
"We wanted to wage him a tribute successful our ain way. So, erstwhile astir everybody had near the crematorium, we sang it (title way of the show) for him. I deliberation helium would’ve liked it this way. He is simply a antheral who should beryllium celebrated," Mr. Majethia told PTI.
According to Mr. Majethia, the precocious histrion underwent kidney transplant chiefly to get amended and to instrumentality attraction of his ailing wife, Madhu, who is suffering from Alzheimer's.
"She has realised it (Mr. Shah’s demise). Initially, she didn’t cognize anything. She said, 'He is inside, and that helium volition travel retired successful sometime'. We were like, ‘Okay, we are waiting’. But erstwhile Satish ji’s mortal remains were brought home, and we were performing the rituals, she was brought retired to spot the world and bid goodbye to him. She enactment her manus connected his caput and she started crying. She was sitting by his broadside for a agelong time. It is tragic,” Mr. Majethia said, adding that they each are going to enactment connected with Madhu.
The actor-producer recalled that Mr. Satish Shah would often talk astir his woman and her health.
"Her information has deteriorated. I retrieve Satish ji would ever accidental that, ‘I don’t person immoderate different interest but for Madhu’s health, and thing other successful life," helium said.
Mr. Satish Shah, a postgraduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), archetypal appeared successful insignificant roles successful films specified arsenic "Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan", "Gaman", and "Umrao Jaan".
He aboriginal went connected to make a niche for himself with his show successful films and TV shows specified arsenic "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron", "Maalamaal", "Hero Hiralal", "Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi", "Filmi Chakkar", "Hum Aapke Hai Koun..!", "Saathiya", "Main Hoon Na", "Kal Ho Naa Ho", and the sitcom "Sarabhai vs Sarabhai", among others.
