On Saturday, a prayer meet was organised by his family at Celebration Sports Club in Andheri West, Mumbai. Filmmaker Kuku Kohli passed away on August 25 at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai. The prayer meet saw several Bollywood celebrities arriving to pay their last respects to the filmmaker and express solidarity with his family.
In a 2022 interaction with The Times of India, Aruna spoke about their relationship. Uss chakkar mein kaise lafda ho gaya samajh nahi aya (Don’t know how we fell for each other due to that).” Kuku Kohli’s widow and veteran actor Aruna Irani arrived at the prayer meet in a wheelchair. She was accompanied by family members, who held her and gave her strength as she entered the venue. The sombre gathering saw family members and people close to the filmmaker come together to remember him and pay their respects. Bollywood star couple Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif arrived at the prayer meet together. After meeting Kuku’s family members and paying their last respects, they were seen exiting the venue together. They were accompanied by Vicky’s father and stunt director Sham Kaushal. The couple was surrounded by paparazzi as they exited the venue, but Sham escorted them and made sure they reached their car safely. Later, Vicky was seen touching his father’s feet before leaving. Other celebrities, including veteran actresses Asha Parekh, Madhoo and Poonam Dhillon, as well as Jackie Shroff, Anupam Kher and veteran actor Ketki Dave, were also seen at the prayer meet. Kuku Kohli made his directorial debut with Phool Aur Kaante, which emerged as a commercial success and also marked Ajay Devgn’s debut. The film also starred Madhoo, Amrish Puri, Aruna Irani and Jagdeep. During that film, he used to make all the other actors wait till Dharmendra ji arrived on sets to start the shoot. And I used to get very angry at him as I was too working on some other films at that time. So we started with a love and hate relationship. I used to get very upset with him and he used to console me.
She said, “We met each other during one of the films that we worked on together.
