Court actor Vira Sathidar dies due to Covid-19 related complications

Activist and actor Vira Sathidar, best known for featuring in the National Award-winning film Court, died on Tuesday due to Covid-19 related complications, PTI reported. Chaitanya Tamhane, the director of Court confirmed the development to the news agency. Sathidar was in his early sixties.

“He passed away around 3 am in the hospital,” Tamhane told PTI. “He had Covid-19 and was on ventilator. It is an extremely unfortunate news. It is yet to sink in. He was not only an actor, activist and a poet but also one of the nicest human beings I have met.”

Sathidar was an active participant in the Ambedkarite movement in Maharashtra and held the post of convenor of the Indian People’s Theatre Association.