TIL Desk Bollywood/ Noted film director-producer Ravi Tandon, known for directing Amitabh Bachchan’s “Khuddar” and Rishi Kapoor-Neetu Kapoor’s Khel Khel Mein, died in the early hours of Friday at his residence in Mumbai. He was 87.
He is the father of Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon and Rajiv Tandon. Ravi Tandon passed away due to respiratory failure. He was suffering from lung fibrosis from past few years.
Raveena, 47, shared a heartfelt tribute to her father on Instagram. “You will always walk with me , I will always be you, I’m never letting go. Love you papa,” she wrote alongside a series of pictures with her father.
Ravi Tandon is credited to have directed suspense-drama Anhonee with Sanjeev Kumar; Rajesh Khanna, Sridevi and Smita Patil’s Nazrana; Jhoota Kahin Ka with Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor; Amitabh Bachchan-starrer crime thriller Majboor, multi-starrer films Khuddaar and Zindagi, among others.
