TIL Desk Bollywood/ Veteran actor Dr. Shriram Lagoo, a stalwart in Marathi theatre and cinema and a prolific character artiste in numerous Bollywood movies, passed away on Tuesday evening. He was 92.
Dr Lagoo died of cardiac arrest at his Pune residence around 8 pm. The last rites will be performed after his son comes from the United States, his wife Deepa Lagoo said in a statement.
Dr
Lagoo, born in Satara in 1927 and a trained as an ENT surgeon by profession,
played an important role in the growth of theatre movement in Maharashtra in
post-Independence era alongside Vijay Tendulkar, Vijaya Mehta and Arvind
Deshpande.
