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Neena Gupta pays tribute to Pandit Birju Maharaj in heartfelt post. Read here
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Neena Gupta took to Instagram to pay her tribute to Kathak maestro Pandit Birju Maharaj who passed away earlier this month.
Neena Gupta, on Wednesday, took to Instagram to pay her tribute to Pandit Birju Maharaj. Her post comes almost 10 days after the Kathak maestro passed away. He died on January 17 in Delhi.
Calling Maharaj Ji her favourite, Neena Gupta shared a throwback picture and said that she will truly miss him. “My favourite Birju Maharaj Ji will miss you a lot. Never seen someone dancing so beautifully uff sachchi (sic),” she wrote in the caption.
Take a look at Neena Gupta’s heartfelt post in remembrance of Pandit Birju Maharaj:
The photo shows Neena Gupta dressed in a saree and sitting next to the Kathak legend.
Within an hour of being shared, the photo garnered over 3k likes and was flooded with comments by netizens. “What a loss for us,” a user wrote, while many others dropped heart emojis.
Pandit Birju Maharaj passed away at his Delhi home. He was 83. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, actress Madhuri Dixit, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath remembered Maharaj ji in moving posts on social media post his demise.
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