An art director and a gentleman
1/12/2014
There has been one
more goodbye this week. Chhel Vayeda,
79, veteran Art-director (of 'Chhel-Paresh' duo), father of writer
director Sanjay Chel, Vayeda breathed his last with his working shoes on.
Vayedya started his
career as a set designer in 1963-64 and has over the decades designed more than
700 plays in almost all languages that span from the mainstream Khubsurat (1999) to international Train to Pakistan(1996), from the middle
of the road Sagar Sarhadi's Lorie (1984)
to Amol Palekar's artistic Ankahi
(1986). He worked with the best talent on stage and cinema be it AK Bir's
Udiya film Aadi Mimansa or
Ashwini Chaudhary's National award winning film Laado.
His admirers still remember his path breaking Runway Set in Aatam ne ojhal ma rakh Maan/1968 or the
flood sequence in Mutthi Unchero Maanvi/1978
when the duo Chel Paresh teamed up with the legendary Light Designer Tapas Sen
from Kolkatta. A pioneer of the musical-cultural events besides theatre and films,
Vaeda was the first to initiate the trend of theme weddings.
On the night before he breathed his last, Chhel Vayeda was
giving final touch to the Set Design of Vipul Mehta and Sanjay Goradia's
new Gujarati play My Wife, Meri Kom
andthe sketch of his last set was discovered by his bedside! His partner
Paresh Daru will be as incomplete without Vayeda as music composer Pyarelal is
without Laxmikant of Laxmikant Pyarelal team.
Bhawana Somaaya/ @bhawanasomaaya
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