'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro' director Kundan Shah dead

Mumbai, Oct 7: Filmmaker Kundan Shah, director of the cult black comedy "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro" and the romantic drama "Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa", died here early on Saturday, a family member said. He was 69.

"He died in his sleep early in the morning," a Shah relative told IANS.

According to writer-actor-filmmaker Satish Kaushik, who wrote dialogues for "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro" and acted in it, Shah suffered a cardiac arrest.

Shah, who also gave the industry some much-loved television shows like "Nukkad" and "Wagle Ki Duniya", would have turned 70 on October 19.