Nakuul Mehta Remembers Junior Mehmood With a Heartwarming Note: 'Thank You For Your Kindness'

Actor Nakuul Mehta took to his X handle on Saturday to pay tribute to veteran actor Junior Mehmood, who passed away on Friday while battling with stage four cancer. Nakuul shared the screen with Junion Mehmood in his show Pyaar Ka Dard Hai. Recalling the days he worked with the veteran actor, Nakuul called him the “greatest inspiration” and a “wonderful comic talent”. He also revealed that he used to call Mehmood ‘Junior Sir’, while the late actor used to address him as ‘Adi Baba’. Nakuul’s name in Pyaar Ka Dard Hai was Aditya.

“Whilst the set has a mix of some experienced and distinguished actors and then there were absolute newcomers.. In between all of them was one man with a cumulative experience of all of us. He served the arts for 55 years before he passed on yesterday but never for a moment made you believe or feel that he came from years of work, having worked with some of the greatest and being an inspiration himself to some wonderful comic talent which subsequently found their home in our industry,” Nakuul wrote.

The former Bade Achhe Lagta Hain actor further shared that Junion Mehmood was always “encouraging, very considerate” of his co-stars. “He was that actor and person on and off set who would never command attention but you take him off the show and something would not feel right. He was that invisible glue who would hold the show together and rarely got credit that he in all fairness deserved. Knowing him, he’d be happy just to be on a set, living his childhood dream,” Nakuul added.

“Thank you for your kindness and that always encouraging smile. Being on a set with you made me so much better. Thank you for the memories, Junior Sir,” the actor concluded.

Meanwhile, Junior Mehmood’s last rites were also held on Friday in Mumbai. Several actors including Johnny Lever, Rakesh Bedi, Aditya Pancholi, Sudesh Bhosale, Avtar Gill and Raza Murad paid their tributes to the veteran actor.