Indian film editor Waman Bhonsle dies at 89

Mumbai: Popular film editor Waman P. Bhonsle passed away Monday.

Bhonsle breathed his last at 4:00 am at his home in Goregaon, Mumbai. He was 89 years old.

He started his career with Raj Khosla’s film Do Raaste in 1969. He has edited some blockbuster movies like Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Do Raaste, Inkaar, Dostana, Ghulam, Agneepath, Parichay, Mausam, Aandhi, Hero, Kalicharan, Karz, Saaheb, Ram Lakhan, Saudagar.

In his career he worked with many important filmmakers of his time like Raj Khosla, Gulzaar, Subhash Ghai, Shekar Kapur, Ravi Tandon, Mahesh Bhat, Raj Sippy, Anil Ganguly, Sunil Dutt, Vikram Bhat, Ashok Gaikwad and K. Vishwanath.

He retired from work in 2002. Bhonsle was also awarded the National Award for Best Editor for the 1977 film Inkaar.

Hindi film director Subhash Ghai expressed his condolences and wrote, “A GENUIS film editor in my first film KALICHARAN remained my editor teacher in all my films till khalnayak n inspired me to edit my film like TAAL n so on. A Great teacher.”