Actors Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan had been amongst late display screen icons who got tributes together with Sean Connery, Kirk Douglas and Chadwick Boseman, on the 74th British Academy for Movie and Tv Arts (BAFTA) awards held within the Royal Albert Corridor on Sunday evening. The tribute was a homage paid to over 40 artists of the world of display screen misplaced in the course of the previous 12 months, together with actors, writers, administrators, and technicians.
The tribute video began with a tribute to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Irrfan’s identify was accompanied by a dialogue from his 2012 Hollywood movie “Life Of Pi”. For these unversed, Irrfan died on April 29 final 12 months in Mumbai on the age of 53 final 12 months after an extended battle with most cancers. His final movie was ‘Angrezi Medium’, which launched on March 13 final 12 months.
Different late artistes, who had been remembered within the video included Ian Holm and Barbara Windsor, and the video ended with a tribute to “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, who died in August on the age of 43 following a four-year-long non-public battle with colon most cancers.
Speaking about Rishi Kapoor, the actor breathed his final in Mumbai on April 30, 2020, after a two-year battle with leukemia. He was final seen within the 2019 movie ‘The Physique’ alongside Emraan Hashmi and Sobhita Dhulipala.
The BAFTA, hosted by Edith Bowman and Dermot O’Leary, supplied their condolences to the Royal family on the lack of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who handed away on April 9.
(With IANS Inputs)
