Roshan Taneja, the acting guru who has trained many veteran Bollywood celebrities including the likes of Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Anil Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha, passed away on Saturday. He was 87. “My father passed away last night (Friday) at 9.30 p.m. in his sleep at home after a prolonged illness,” the acting guru’s son Rohit Taneja told IANS on Saturday morning.
Mourning Taneja’s death, many celebrities took to Twitter to offer their condolences. “Late last night came the sad news that Roshan Taneja passed away. He was my Guru at FTII and the only person whose feet I touched. I was privileged to be trained in acting by him”, wrote Shabana Azmi.
Anil Kapoor said he was “extremely fortunate to have been trained under” Roshan Taneja.
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Roshan Taneja, known to many as the ‘pioneer of method acting’ in India, is a celebrated figure in the Hindi film industry. He had been training talent since the 1960s, first at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune and later at his private school in Mumbai, the Roshan Taneja School of Acting.
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