25 March marks the 70th birth anniversary of Farooque Shaikh, the flag-bearer of the middle-of-the-road cinema of the 70s and 80s. Google remembered the late actor with a quintessential doodle.
Shaikh made a mark with films like Chashme Baddoor, Noorie, Shatranj Ke Khiladi and Umrao Jaan.
“Today’s Doodle by Nimit Malavia is a tribute to Farouque Shaikh’s cinematic career in a style evocative of hand-painted movie posters of the 1970s, and especially Umrao Jaan. We see the wide-eyed romantic hero of the 1970’s mature into a comfortingly familiar TV presence of the 1990’s, bridging the gap between mainstream and arthouse cinema in India along the way,”Google’s blog post
His on-screen pairing with Deepti Naval is the stuff of some of the most memorable cinematic moments.
Shaikh passed away at the age of 65 in Dubai on December 28, 2013.
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