Saturday, 7th January 2017, 12:00 PM IST
Nawazuddin Siddiqui is saddened by the sudden demise of veteran actor Om Puri. Entire film fraternity paid tribute to the late actor. Nawazuddin was affected rather more by the death as he said that Omji was supposed to work with him in ‘Manto’.
Nawazuddin will be playing the role of popular short story writer Sadat Hassan Manto on the silver screen. The movie is being helmed by Nandita Das.
Nawazuddin condoled his death on Twitter and posted, “The best actor in world, an inspiration to me and many, he was suppose to work with me in 'Manto'. Deeply saddened by the news.”
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