Veteran actress Shammi breathed her last on Tuesday morning, informed fashion designer Sandeep Khosla through an Instagram post. The veteran performer was seen in popular films like s Coolie No 1, Hum, Mardon Wali Baat, Gurudev, Gopi Kishan, Hum Saath-Saath Hain and Imtihaan to name a few. The designer posted on Instagram, “e will miss you #you #will #always #remain #special #to #us #RIP #ShammiAunty #1929-2018 #loveyou #abujanisandeepkhosla #bestfriend #guide #family.” Also, Amitabh Bachchan tweeted, “Shammi Aunty... prolific actress, years of contribution to the Industry, dear family friend... passes away ..!! A long suffered illness, age... Sad... slowly, slowly they all go away..."

wewillmissyou #you #will #always #remain #special #to #us #RIP #ShammiAunty #1929-2018 #loveyou #abujanisandeepkhosla #bestfriend #guide #family

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Popularly called as Shammi aunty, the actress was last seen in Boman Irani- Farah Khan starrer Shirin Farhad Ki Nikal Padi. Talking in an interview to TOI, she was quoted saying, “I want to continue acting. It's the only thing I know how to do. But movie offers had stopped coming for a while. I was doing television. But that too dwindled lately. So I was sitting idle. At my age to be workless is to be worthless. Lekin main aaj tak kabhi kissi se kaam maange nahin gayi (I never went to anyone to ask for work). Why should I do so now? I am happy getting what comes to me. And grateful to God, I still get work. It isn't a major role in Shirin Farhad, but it was great fun shooting the film."

Shammi lived with her best friend and veteran actress Asha Parekh for some span of time and said that she loved what she was doing in her work space. May her soul rest in peace.

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