But when the curtains came down we got a standing ovation,” Shabana recalls. “Farooque calmed them down, promising a refund if they were unhappy. The crowd at New Jersey wasn't so civilised when they turned up two hours late because their cabbie had lost the way. He reminded her how after she was arrested with 16 slum dwellers and had refused bail, director Feroz Abbas Khan and he had rushed her out of the Colaba police station to NCPA where people had been patiently waiting for two hours to see the play. Farooque protested saying they were good for another 21 years. “We’ve been doing this for 21 years, it’s time to call it curtains,” she suggested. The performance brought the audience to its feet in what Shabana felt was a fitting finale. Tumhari Amrita, in Agra against the backdrop of the Taj. She recalls their last meeting on December 14 during a show of their play, He battled in the hospital for 45 minutes, then Farooque Sheikh, my friend, colleague and well wisher for 44 years left us, shattered and devastated,” says Shabana Azmi. “I got a call from his wife Roopa at around 3 am. He was on a family vacation to visit his sister in Abu Dhabi. Sweet memories are all that his heart-broken family, friends and fans are left with of this 65-year-old actor who suffered had a heart attack late on December 27 in Dubai. “He won, but only because of the quantity of sweets he accumulated even though my 'How does ‘is’ become ‘was’ in the span of a moment?” wonders Sarika, in shock over the news that herĬlub 60 co-star, Farooque Shaikh, will never greet her again with anĪdaab, passionately discuss cinema and politics with her and show his appreciation for the sweet tooth they shared by initiating a Remembering Farooque Shaikh who gave us some of our finest films and was loved for his gentle, genteel ways.
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