Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan has penned a small note on his blog in remembrance of veteran actor and friend Vikram Gokhale and actor and famous television host Tabassum. He said the “days are lined with sadness” as they all “played their parts and left the stage empty.” Vikram Gokhale died of multiple organ failure on November 26 in Pune, while Tabassum died of cardiac arrest on November 19.
Remembering the two of them and some other close ones, Amitabh wrote on his blog, "the days are lined with sadness... friends and colleagues... artists of huge merit, leave us day by day... and we listen see and pray... Tabassum... Vikram Gokhale and some dear ones that are close and known… they came to us in our lives... they played their parts and left the stage empty forlorn and desolate by their absence…”
Vikram Gokhale, known for several Marathi and Hindi films died last week at a Pune hospital, where he was undergoing treatment. He was 77. He had worked in Amitabh Bachchan-starrer ‘Agneepath’ in 1990 and ‘Khuda Gawah’ in 1992. In 2020, Amitabh Bachchan played himself in the Marathi film ‘AB Ani CD’ starring Vikram Gokhale. The duo played childhood friends in the Milind Lele directorial. It was Vikram who had convinced Amitabh to take up the role.
Tabassum is known for her work as a child artiste in several Hindi classics such as ‘Baiju Bawra’ and ‘Mughal-e-Azam’, and also as host of the popular Doordarshan talk show ‘Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan’, died earlier. She was 78.
Remembering her, he had earlier written in another blog post, “…they all leave us one by one... and it is beyond comprehension... you only recollect the times of their presence and life before the eyes and the mind... and they ever remain an image of the time... unchanged, unfettered and in the freedom of free... and then they leave, and it cannot be fathomed.”
