Veteran Kannada movie director and actor Joe Simon died on Friday after a coronary heart assault, information company PTI reported, citing business sources. He was 80 years previous.
The filmmaker was attending a gathering on the Karnataka Movie Chamber of Commerce in Bengaluru when he suffered a coronary heart assault on Friday afternoon. In keeping with reviews, he was rushed to the hospital however was pronounced lifeless at round 4.30 pm.
Joe Simon dies
Simon suffered a cardiac arrest on the Karnataka Movie Chamber of Commerce in Bengaluru, the place he had attended a gathering this afternoon. The Instances of India reported that Joe Simon was actively collaborating, providing options and discussing future plans within the assembly, and even proposed {that a} celebratory programme be organised. Nonetheless, moments later, he collapsed. An individual current on the assembly instructed the publication, “Shortly after stepping out of the assembly corridor, he went and sat on the attendant’s chair, and he instantly collapsed; it was a extreme cardiac arrest.”
Tributes pour in
In a profession that spanned many years, Joe Simon had directed a number of fashionable Kannada movies, together with Sahasa Simha, Snehada Kadalalli, Simha Jodi, and Mr Vasu. Simon had additionally served because the Vice President of the Kannada Movie Administrators Affiliation.
Tributes poured in from each the world of cinema and politics. Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar described Simon’s loss of life as an “irreparable loss” to the Kannada movie business.
“It’s saddening that famend Kannada movie director Joe Simon has handed away as a consequence of a coronary heart assault. Joe Simon, who hailed from Mandya and had been energetic within the Kannada movie business for many years, labored in additional than 100 movies as an actor, director, and lyricist. His demise is an irreparable loss to the Kannada movie business. I pray that God grants everlasting peace to his soul and provides energy to his household to bear this ache. Om Shanti,” Shivakumar wrote on X in Kannada.
Expressing grief over his passing, Chief of Opposition R Ashoka recalled Simon’s contribution as an actor, director, and dialogue author, highlighting his profitable movies, together with Vishnuvardhan’s Sahasa Simha.