Waman Bhonsle, National Award-winning film editor, dies

Film editor Waman Bhonsle breathed his last today, He has worked in several movies like Karz, Mr India, Agneepath, Saudagar, Khalnayak, Daayra, Judai, Ghulam, Taal and many more. Filmmaker Subhash Ghai paid tribute to Bhonsle by calling him a genius and great teacher. Bhonsle’s nephew Dinesh Bhonsle in a interview to Indian Express said, “He was keeping unwell from around a year. He had diabetes for many years, and in the last one year he had also started losing his memory. He was not able to walk around much either and had stopped eating in the last four-five days. He passed away at his home in Goregaon, Mumbai at 4.00 AM today. His funeral will be held in the afternoon today."

RIP 🙏🏽WAMAN BHONSLE SIR

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🙏🏽

We ⁦@MuktaArtsLtd⁩
⁦@Whistling_Woods⁩
Remain grateful for good
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— Subhash Ghai (@SubhashGhai1) April 26, 2021

Waman Bhonsle was born in Goa and came to Mumbai in early 1950s to complete his studies. He worked with editor DN Pai at Bombay Talkies for six months, and later as an assistant editor at Filmistan. Bhonsle first Hindi film as an independent editor with Raj Khosla directorial Do Raaste (1969). He remained active during 1960s-1970s, working as an editor for several popular hits like Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Inkaar, Dostana, Ghulam, Do Raaste, Agneepath, Aandhi, Parichay, Mausam, Hero, Karz, Kalicharan, Saaheb, Ram Lakhan, Saudagar, Ghulam and others.Bhonsle won a National Award for Inkaar (1977), apart from other awards for films like Saudagar and Ghulam. In a career spanning over four decades, Bhonsle collaborated with almost every big director of that time, including Gulzar, Shekhar Kapur, Ravi Tandon, Subhash Ghai, Mahesh Bhatt, Raj Sippy, Sunil and Dutt.