Bharati Dubey | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; September 30, 2012)

 

Mumbai: Film editor M S Shinde (83), who edited over 100 hit films, including Sholay, died in penury here on Friday. Shinde’s daughter Achla, who has been taking care of her father for nearly a decade, said, “It is sad the film industry forgets people once they retire. Even after the media wrote about my father’s financial and health condition nobody from the film industry came forward to help.’’

Shinde had edited films like Sagar, Seeta Aur Geeta, Brahmachari and Ram Jaane. Shinde had fallen on hard times and had been living in PMGP Colony in Dharavi for the last two years. He was forced to shift there after the building he lived in Parel collapsed and the owner refused to help. Achla said, “There are so many producers who have not paid my father but he had too much self-respect to go and ask for his dues.’’

Shinde did not like to talk about his condition. It was the late Dadasaheb Phalke’s great grand daughter-in-law Mrudula who found about his condition and approached the cine wing of the MNS which has now offered to help.