Saturday 17 November 2018

AD & THEATRE LEGEND ALYQUE PADAMSEE NO MORE!


Legendary Ad-filmmaker & Theatre artist.. Alyque Padamsee!

Legendary personality in the fields of Ad-film making & English Theatre.. Alyque Padamsee passed away today!

'Gandhi's (1982) filmmaker Richard Attenborough directing..
Alyque Padamsee for the role of Muhammad Ali Jinnah!
At the age of seven he started acting on theatre with play 'Merchant of Venice' by Shakespeare! 
Then he became director with drama 'Taming of Shrew'. His lavish stage productions includes 'Tuglaq' and 'Broken Images'.

Alyque Padamsee was best known as 'Advertising Genius' who once headed famous company 'Lintas Bombay'! With outstanding creativity he built over 100 brands. He was voted in 'International Clio Hall of Fame' the Oscars of World Advertising!
Pop singer & actress Sharon Prabhakar with Alyque Padamsee!


He also acted in cinema..And in Richard Attenborough's 'Oscar' winner 'Gandhi' (1982) he portrayed the role of Muhammad Ali Jinnah!

In 2000 he was honoured with 'Padmashri' by our Government. And in 2012 he received 'Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Ratna'!

Many years ago in Pune I saw English play in which Alyque Padamsee performed with his third wife pop singer & actress Sharon Prabhakar. After the play we had nice interaction!

Homage to this genius!!

- Manoj Kulkarni
  ['Chitrasrushti']

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