Amitabh Bachchan along with many other bollywood bigwigs visited the residence of late actor Shaukat Kaifi Azmi on Saturday afternoon, to pay respects to the Umrao Jaan actor.
On Saturday, actors such as Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Rishi Kapoor and Naseeruddin Shah among others attended the last rites at the Andheri West residence in Mumbai.
Thespian Amitabh Bachchan was one of the early celebs to visit Shabana Azmi on Saturday afternoon. A sombre Amitabh was spotted paying his last respects at the last rites of Shaukat Kaifi.
Veteran actor and Shabana Azmi’s mother Shaukat died on Friday at the age of 93, of a cardiac arrest on Friday evening. The family hosted a condolence meet this afternoon, where Tabu, Rishi Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Shibani Dhandekar, Rekha, Sanjay Kapoor, Saiyami Kher and many other were seen.
Bollywood personalities, including Anil Kapoor, Boney Kapoor, Kiran Rao, Sanjay Kapoor, Neelima Azeem, Vindu Dara Sing, Shankar Mahadevan and many more were snapped at Kaifi’s residence.
From Umraao Jaan to Mira Nair’s Oscar-nominated film Salaam Bombay, the renowned late actor has starred in a number of movies and was last seen in Vivek Oberoi and Rani Mukerji-starrer Saathiya, which released in 2002.
Her last rites are scheduled to take place today in Mumbai. Kaifi was married to late Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi and had two children with him - Shabana and Baba.
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