Acclaimed Director Kalpana Lajmi Passes Away At The Age of 61

Filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi bread her last on Sunday, September 23. acclaimed director passed away at 4:30 am. 
Lajmi was suffering from kidney Cancer. 

Kalpana is kwn for her women-centric films like 'Rudaali', 'Darmiyaan', and 'Daman' to name a few. As per reports, acclaimed filmmaker was diagsed with a tumour in her Kidney in 2015. Lajmi was also facing a financial crisis, and most of eminent personalities from film fraternity h come to her rescue and provided support.

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As per reports, Kalpana was undergoing dialysis for a couple of years and h reportedly said that her kidneys h failed but she hn't.

Kalpana me her debut as a feature film director with her film 'Ek Pal. Her biography on Indian playback singer Bhupen Hazarika, 'Bhupen Hazarika: As I Knew Him' was launched earlier in September. 

Several eminent Bollywood personalities including Soni Razdan, Raveena Tandon, and Huma Qureshi, to name a few took to Twitter to pay ir last respects to uber-talented filmmaker.

Soni Razdan:

Soni Razdan took to Twitter to mourn loss of Kalpana Lajmi and said, "I will miss her strong energetic voice, her indefatigable drive to create, her laughter that was always so full of real joy and her wonderful sense of humour. Most of all I will miss my movie partner. Cant believe you’re gone Kalpana. RIP sweeart". 

Raveena Tandon: 

Raveena Tandon took to Twitter to pay her last respects to filmmaker and posted a picture from sets of 'Daman', captioning post as "You will be missed Kalpanaji.Was t your time to go..but may your heart w be at peace. . Those days while shooting Daman will be a treasured memory. #KalpanaLajmi Om Shanti. "

Huma Qureshi:

Bollywood actress Huma Qureshi paid her last respects to acclaimed filmmaker as she put up a post on Twitter saying, "Deeply sdened... at around 4:30 am today morning #KalpanaLajmi passed away .. May she rest in peace."

filmmaker is survived by her mor Lalita Lajmi who is a rewned painter.