A cardiac arrest resulted in the sudden and untimely death of Vijay Hanumant Jadhav, 43, director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) on Monday morning.
A cardiac arrest resulted in the sudden and untimely death of Vijay Hanumant Jadhav, 43, director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) on Monday morning.
Jadhav, who was also holding dual charge of director (Pune), Press Information Bureau (PIB), was rushed to Sahyadri Hospital in Kothrud at 9.30 am, but could not be saved.
Survived by his mother, wife Sadhana (a lecturer at the College of Engineering Pune) and daughters Rajeshwari and Swarmayi, the young NFAI director complained of uneasiness in the morning and was rushed to hospital, where he breathed his last.
His stunned and grief-stricken relatives brought his body to his home in Swaranjali Society in Shivatirth Nagar, Kothrud, and later to his native place Sultan Gade in Vita, Sangli district, for the last rites.
A graduate of the 1990 batch of Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the prestigious University Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly, UDCT) Mumbai, Jadhav joined the ministry of information and broadcasting through the Civil Services
Examination, 1994.
He had earned a name for himself as an efficient co-ordinator at a young age and left a mark in Doordarshan, All India Radio and the PIB, where he was posted.
Popular as friendly and approachable, Jadhav initiated many innovative projects both in the NFAI and PIB.
One such initiative was the public information campaigns to bridge the information gap between the government and the beneficiaries of various developmental programmes. This was successfully implemented in 28 districts of Maharashtra and one each in Bihar, West Bengal, Punjab and Gujarat.
In April 2008, Jadhav took charge as director of NFAI, the youngest in its history. He had initiated an ambitious project for digitisation and digital restoration of films.
In an effort to take the benefit of the organisation to the masses, Jadhav had launched short-term film appreciation courses clubbed with regional film festivals in different cities.
A fine bureaucrat and administrator, he was deeply interested in music and was an accomplished tabla player, having trained under Ustad Allah Rakha for 15 years. He started taking lessons in tabla at the age of six from Satyawan Mane, a disciple of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan from Farukhabad. In recent years, he was studying the Farukhabad Gharana.
It was barely two days ago, on Saturday, that Jadhav had accompanied singer Duttaprasad Ranade on the tabla at a cultural function in the city.
A condolence meeting was held at PIB headquarters in New Delhi.
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