Goa’s Pride, India’s best film editor, Waman Bhonsle, no more
GOANEWS DESK, PANAJI | 26 April 2021 15:37 IST
He was the Pride of Goa and the finest film editor of India, a recipient of the first ever National Film Award instituted by Government of India in 1978. Waman Bhonsle, from Pomburpa in Bardez, expired today early this morning at 89.
“Since the lockdown last year, he was not keeping well due to age-related ailments”, said Dinesh Bhonsle, his nephew and a Goan filmmaker.
Survived by his wife, a son and three daughters, Bhonsle breathed his last at his Goregao residence in Mumbai.
During his 47-year long career in the Indian film industry, he edited 231 films and practically every film of Gulzar