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Actor-activist Vira Sathidar, best known for featuring in the National Award-winning film “Court”, died on Tuesday due to COVID-19 related complications, filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane confirmed.The actor, who was in his early sixties, was admitted to a city hospital after he contracted the coronavirus.
According to Tamhane, who directed him in the acclaimed 2014 “Court”, the actor was put on ventilator and breathed his last around 3 AM.
Sathidar rose to prominence after playing the role of protest singer NaNarayan Kamble in “Court”, who is accused of encouraging a manhole worker to commit suicide through one of his folk songs.
