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Actress Kangana Ranaut also shared a message and spoke about Nihalani’s role in supporting cinema and artists through the years. She wrote, \u201cDeeply saddened to hear about the passing of Pahlaj Nihalani ji. A producer who backed numerous films, launched and supported many artists, and remained passionately committed to Indian cinema for decades, his contribution to the film industry will always be remembered. My heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and loved ones during this difficult time. Om Shanti.” Actor Chunky Panday also paid tribute through social media and remembered the veteran producer with a post. Kamaal R Khan shared a message as well. He wrote, \u201cRIP Pahlaj Nihalani Sahab! You did a very good job as a film maker. We all have to follow you sir. This is the real truth of the life.”<\/p>\nA long journey in Hindi cinema
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Pahlaj Nihalani built a long career in the Hindi film industry and remained connected to many commercial entertainers through the years. His filmography included projects such as ‘Gunahon Ka Faisla’, ‘Paap Ki Duniya’, ‘Mitti Aur Sona’, ‘Shola Aur Shabnam’ and ‘Aankhen’. Apart from producing films, he later served as CBFC chairperson and remained an active figure in industry discussions. <\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source timesofindia.indiatimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hindi film industry is mourning the loss of veteran producer and former Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani. He passed away at the age of 76 and left behind decades of contribution to Indian cinema. The news of his demise quickly spread across the industry and prompted reactions from actors, filmmakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2444536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[406382,395544,462191,25604,479888,402927],"class_list":["post-2444535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-central-board-of-film-certification","tag-chunky-panday","tag-hindi-film-industry","tag-kangana-ranaut","tag-pahlaj-nihalani","tag-randeep-hooda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pahlaj-Nihalani-passes-away-at-76-Kangana-Ranaut-Chunky-Panday.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444537,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444535\/revisions\/2444537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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