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Kulmeet Makkar, CEO of the Film and Television Producers Guild, passes away 

After the tragic news of the demise of two of the greatest actors of the Indian film industry- Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor- the month of May began with another unfortunate news. Early on May 1, CEO of the Film and Television Producers Guild Kulmeet Makkar passed away after suffering a heart attack. 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just heard the terrible news of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KulmeetMakkar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KulmeetMakkar</a> CEO Producers Guild of India passing away. What a wonderful man and a good friend. Very very sad ! <a href="https://t.co/bWUrdXIJuh">pic.twitter.com/bWUrdXIJuh</a></p>— sanjay suri (@sanjaysuri) <a href="https://twitter.com/sanjaysuri/status/1256075051020902400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Makkar was in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh during the lockdown. Makkar has been a part of the entertainment industry for more than three decades. He has worked with Sargama and Reliance Entertainment as founder CEO of Big Music and Home Entertainment,, He was also the president and CEO at Shreya Entertainment before becoming the Guild's CEO in 2010. 

Many celebrities from the film fraternity took to social media to express their grief: 

Makkar was working on setting up a trust- to which Netflix has pledged to contribute $1 million to help daily wage earners in the film and television industry. 



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