Subhash Ghai plans day-long tribute to Ashok Mehta

MUMBAI: Filmmaker Subhash Ghai has planned to organise a day-long tribute in honour of late cinematographer Ashok Mehta at his media and film institute Whistling Woods on 27 August.

On the occasion, exhibitions and seminars on Mehta‘s works have been planned. His directorial debut Moksh will also be screened in the presence of its lead actors Arjun Rampal and Manisha Koirala.

Mehta, who breathed his last on 15 August at the age of 65 following advanced lung cancer, was among one of India‘s best known cinematographers. Films that he was associated with were Shekhar Kapur‘s Bandit Queen, Shyam Benegal‘s Mandi and Trikaal, Aparna Sen‘s 36 Chowringhee Lane and Paroma, Shashi Kapoor‘s Utsav and MF Hussain‘s Gaja Gamini.

Incidentally, Ghai and Mehta worked together in films like Ram Lakhan (1989), Khal Nayak (1993) and Kisna (2005).