Amitabh Bachchan remembers Vikram Gokhale, Tabassum: ‘They came to our lives, played their parts and left’

Amitabh Bachchan has penned a small note on his blog in remembrance of veteran actor and friend Vikram Gokhale and actor and famous television host Tabassum. He said the ‘days are lined with sadness’ as they all ‘played their parts and left the stage empty’. Tabassum died of cardiac arrest on November 19. Vikram Gokhale died of multiple organ failure on November 26 in Pune. Also read: Here’s why Vikram Gokhale watched an Amitabh Bachchan film every week

Remembering the two of them and some other closes ones, Amitabh wrote on his blog on Sunday, “the days are lined with sadness… friends and colleagues… artists of huge merit, leave us day by day… and we listen see and pray… Tabassum… Vikram Gokhale and some dear ones that are close and known… they came to us in our lives… they played their parts and left the stage empty forlorn and desolate by their absence…”

Vikram Gokhale, known for several Marathi and Hindi films died on Saturday at a Pune hospital, where he was undergoing treatment. He was 77. He had worked in Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Agneepath (1990) and Khuda Gawah (1992). In 2020, Amitabh Bachchan played himself in the Marathi film AB Ani CD starring Vikram Gokhale. The duo played childhood friends in the Milind Lele directorial. It was Vikram, who had convinced Amitabh to take up the role.

Tabassum, known for her work as a child artiste in several Hindi classics such as Baiju Bawra and Mughal-e-Azam, and also as host of popular Doordarshan talk show Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan, died last week. She was 78.

Remembering her, he had earlier written in another blog post, “…they all leave us one by one… and it is beyond comprehension… you only recollect the times of their presence and life before the eyes and the mind… and they ever remain an image of the time… unchanged, unfettered and in the freedom of free… and then they leave, and it cannot be fathomed.”