Bollywood mourns Jag Mundhra's death
Bollywood mourns Jag Mundhra's death
Celebrities take to Twitter to share their fond memories of the filmmaker.

Mumbai: Hollywood-based Indian filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, who made films like Bawandar and Provoked, died of cardiac arrest Sunday, a doctor said. He was 62.

"He was admitted Friday night for internal bleeding. Then he had a cardiac arrest and he was kept on ventilation, but he couldn't survive. He expired at 12.57 p.m. today (Sunday)," a doctor at the Bombay Hospital in Marine Lines said.

Actress Neetu Chandra, who was seen in his 2010 thriller Apartment: Rent at Your Own Risk, said: "Jag sir's body will be taken from Bombay Hosptial to his residence (in Shivaji Park, Dadar West) at 3 p.m. for some time and after that at 4.30 p.m. rituals will be done at a nearby cremation ground."

Seema Biswas, who was about the start shooting for Mundhra's Kissa Kuttey Ka, said: "I Just got the news of his demise and I am in a state of shock. I spoke to him day before yesterday and he seemed perfectly fine. I could not tell from his voice that there was anything wrong with him. In fact, he was so excited about the film as we were about to start shooting at the end of September.

"It's is very shocking and I'm very upset. I just know that there was some internal bleeding because of which he was hospitalised."

Veteran actress and activist Shabana Azmi tweeted: "Sad news. Filmaker Jagmohan Mundhra passed away this morning. Heartfelt condolences to his family. Jagmohan Mundhara - he was one of the most subjective director. His Shoot On Sight is a film which is identical to A Wednesday."

Others also posted condolence messages on Twitter.

Pooja Bedi: "Deeply saddened to hear Jagmohan Mundhra passed away! A WONDERFUL man, my first director & the one responsible for me being in show business," said Pooja Bedi on her Twitter page.

Vikram Bhatt: "Just heard that filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra has passed away! A prayer for the departed and strength to his family, Vikram Bhatt."

Kabir Bedi: "Jagmohan Mundra, friend from my Hollywood years, passes away and I'm deeply sad. Last met at Shammi Kapoor's funeral. RIP."

Born in 1948 in a conservative Marwadi family, Mundhra studied engineering at IIT Mumbai and then moved to US to do his M.Sc. But his ultimate calling was moviemaking and in 1982 he ventured into filmmaking with Sanjeev Kumar and Shabana Azmi starrer Suraag and this was followed by the women-centric film Kamla with Shabana and Deepti Naval in lead roles.

Later he made films like Night Eyes, The Jigsaw Murders, Eyewitness to Murder, Open House and Halloween Night.

In 2000, Mundhra moved to issue-based movies and the first in the series was Nandita Das starrer and critically acclaimed Bawander, which was based on real story of rape victim Bhanwari Devi in Rajasthan.

In 2007, he teamed up with Aishwarya Rai to bring on screen the trials and tribulations of London-based Punjabi woman Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a victim of domestic violence.

In 2007, Mundhra took up yet another sensitive subject for his movie "Shoot On Sight", which talked about the West's perception of Muslims following 9/11. The movie's take-off point is the order London police passed to shoot suspected terrorists after the July 7, 2005, London subway bombings.

However, Mundhra moved to a lighter subject with Govinda starrer Naughty @ 40.

He was very keen to make a film on Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

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