Veteran Bollywood editor Waman Bhonsle passes away at 87.

Dinesh, while talking to a popular daily said that Waman was keeping unwell for around a year, he started to lose his memory, and was not able to do his daily chores, Waman was mostly bedridden and he stopped eating, and passed away at 4:00 am today (Monday), April 26.

“He was keeping unwell from around a year. He had diabetes for many years, and in the last one year he had also started losing his memory. He was not able to walk around much either and had stopped eating in the last four-five days. He passed away at his home in Goregaon, Mumbai at 4.00 AM today. His funeral will be held in the afternoon today.”

Filmmakers pour their respect and condolences after the news came out, they remember Waman Bhonsle as a ‘Great teacher’.

Actor-filmmaker Viveck Vaswani also took to Twitter to pay his tribute to the veteran film editor. “RIP Waman Bhosle. A sad day for cinema!” Vaswani wrote.

Filmmaker Subhash Ghai also condoled the death. Calling him a “great teacher”, Ghai wrote, “RIP WAMAN BHONSLE SIR. A GENUIS film editor in my first film KALICHARAN remained my editor teacher in all my films till khalnayak n inspired me to edit my film like TAAL n so on. A Great teacher. We ⁦@MuktaArtsLtd @Whistling_Woods Remain grateful for good.”

Waman’s first Hindi film assignment as an independent editor was with Raj Khosla directorial Do Raaste (1969). He remained active during 1970s, working as an editor for several popular hits like Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Inkaar, Dostana, Ghulam, Do Raaste, Agneepath, Aandhi, Parichay, Mausam, Karz, Kalicharan, Ram Lakhan, Saudagar, Ghulam, and others.

Bhonsle won a National Award for Inkaar, apart from other awards for films like Saudagar and Ghulam.