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Why Kundan Shah will always be remembered as 'baap' of TV comedy
Updated On: 08 October, 2017 09:07 AM IST | Mumbai | Team Mid-day
<p>The industry goaded him to make another film, and the audience waited, but friends say Shah's simple genius felt out of place in today's times</p>

If you were a kid growing up the '80s, you'd be disappointed today. The maker of Indian television's most remembered shows like Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi and Nukkad, Kundan Shah succumbed to a heart attack on Saturday morning. He was 70. The National Award-winning filmmaker, best known for the dark comedy Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, studied at The Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, with Saeed Mirza, Sudhir Mishra and Vidhu Vinod Chopra. He considered Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx his inspiration.

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