He was 60.
The lensman was at Subhash Ghai's Whistling Woods academy, where he heads the cinematography department, when he suddenly collapsed at 7 pm and was rushed to the Gokuldham hospital in Goregaon, a western Mumbai suburb.
He's survived by his wife and two children.
Photograph: Whistling Woods Official website
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