BollywoodGaram.com: Bollywood celebrities gathered to attend the funeral of the late actor Farooq Sheikh, which was held at Andheri in Mumbai on December 30, 2013. Stars who attended the funeral included Sonali Bendre, Tabu, Anupam Kher, Deepti Naval, Javed Akhtar, Supriya Pathak, Shekhar Suman and Shabana Azmi.
Naval during the ceremony said, “I think some things are just irreparable; they say nobody is indispensable but that’s not true, some people are! Farooq Sheikh was one of them. His friendship means a lot of me.” The parallel cinema actor passed away on December 27, 2013 due to a massive heart attack he suffered while he was in Dubai.
The body of the actor was brought back to Mumbai for the final rites.