Veteran actor Satish Shah died on Saturday in Mumbai at the age of 74 due to kidney failure. His last rites were performed on Sunday. He has played many characters in his long career, but he got a lot of popularity from the show ‘Sarabhai vs Sarabhai’. In this show he played the iconic character of Indravadan Sarabhai. The entire team of the show became very emotional while attending his funeral at Pawan Hans cremation ground. During this, the team of ‘Sarabhai…’ bid an emotional farewell to Satish Shah by singing the theme song of the show in front of the funeral pyre.

Sumit Raghavan, who played the character of Sahil in the show, Rupali Ganguly, who played the character of Monisha, and Rajesh Kumar, who played the character of Rosesh Sarabhai, were also present during the funeral of Satish Shah. Producer JD Majethia, director Deven Bhojani and writer-director Aatish Kapadia were also present on the occasion. Actor Paresh Ganatra was also present with him. While singing the title track of ‘Sarabhai…’, he could not control his tears. Now Deven Bhojani has revealed why the team sang this song in front of Satish Shah’s funeral pyre.

The theme song was sung by the team of Sarabhai?
While sharing the video, Deven Bhojani wrote, “It may sound crazy, dark, strange, but this is what we always sing together and today was no exception. It felt as if Indu herself had insisted and included us. Rest in peace Satish Shah ji, I had the privilege of directing you Sara Bhai Vs Sarabhai, you will always be alive in our hearts.”

Meanwhile, Rajesh Kumar wrote, “Last goodbye.. Sarabhai couldn’t be complete without singing.. Long live Indu.. Kaka did you hear.. I also tried to sing and felt emotional love from the team too.”

Fans became emotional with the team’s tribute
The fans liked this gesture of Sarabhai’s team and they also got emotional. Commenting on the video, one user said, “The emotional quotient of everyone singing is very high. What a wonderful way to say goodbye for the last time,” another wrote, “What a beautiful way to bid farewell to everyone’s beloved Indravadan Sarabhai.” Another commented, “Really, a true tribute to a great artist from a great team.” Let us tell you that the prayer meeting of Satish Shah has been organized in Mumbai today.

The film industry is in shock due to the demise of veteran actor Satish Shah. Famous for his excellent comic timing and memorable characters, Satish Shah’s career lasted for almost 50 years. He once told that he had refused to play the role of a spitting professor in the film ‘Main Hoon Na’ because he found the role “disgusting”. But later Shahrukh Khan and Farah Khan convinced him to do this role.

Shahrukh celebrated Satish like this
While talking to Bollywood Bubble, Satish Shah had said, “I thought, what a disgusting role this is! I wanted to play the role of the principal, which was done by Boman Irani. But Shahrukh told me, ‘Satish bhai, you have done many such roles and anyone can do it. But only you can do this role, we cannot think of anyone else in it.'”

Satish Shah further said, “Both Shahrukh and Farah Khan together put me on the gram tree. That’s how I decided to do that role, but it was not at all easy to do.”

Satish Shah- It was not easy at all

Satish Shah told, “It was not at all easy. I used to keep some water in my mouth and speak certain words in such a way that the water came out like splashes while speaking. He further said that doing the scene of spitting on the superstar’s face was difficult in itself. But Shahrukh Khan made it even more difficult because every time I did it, he would laugh. I used to do the scene very hard, but Shahrukh would laugh and we had to do retakes.

Had to take eight retakes
Satish recalled, “Once we had to take 8 retakes. I got angry and said, ‘After this I will not do this scene.’ Everyone on the set was laughing so hard that they fell off their chairs. Then I gave the eighth shot, and Shahrukh laughed again, finally the insert shot of Zayed had to be used in that scene.