Year 2025 will remain eternally marked in the heart of Bollywood
The year 2025 will forever remain etched in the heart of Indian Film Industry and the Film Fraternity as a year of sereness when laughter, melody, and heroism lost their living echoes. One by one, legends who had defined eras took their final euphemism leaving the screen dark than before.
It began with
‘Rakesh Pandey, the gentle face of realism, whose performance in ‘Sara Akash’ gave voice to a new kind of cinema. Then came the thunderous heartbreak of losing Manoj Kumar, the man who taught India to see itself through the lens of love and patriotism. His ‘Upkar’ and ‘Purab Aur Paschim’ are not merely films they are emotions carved into our collective soul.
In May, we lost
*Mukul Dev, whose versatility spanned languages and generations
*Madhav Vaze, a quiet yet dignified artist. *Dheeraj Kumar
He was a man who bridged the golden era of cinema with the age of television, inspiring countless storytellers.
*Achyut Potdar When he departed in August, it felt like a beloved grandfather leaving home, the kind who made every scene feel real. Then in October it was another setback in the demise of
*Pankaj Dheer, the noble ‘Karna’ of our screens
*Asrani, the eternal jailor of ‘Sholay’ who made millions laugh; *Satish Shah, whose humor was pure warmth. Each departure tore a thread from the fabric of Hindi cinema.
Eventually, November blacked out the stars even further with *Sulakshana Pandit, Zarine Khan, Kamini Kaushal, and the mighty Dharmendra, our “He-Man,” the soul of the silver screen.
They may have left this ‘mortal’ world to the ‘immortal’ world, but in every flicker of the projector, in every echo of old songs, their spirit will continue to live on eternal, luminous, and forever part of India’s turbulent ocean
of sky.
News Input KV Raman
