Pictures: Bollywood Celebrities arrive for 'Antim Darshan' of Yash Chopra

By Puri

Updated: Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 13:21 [IST]

Bollywood is shocked and shattered with the death of legendary filmmaker, Yash Chopra. The entire world and the film fraternity is yet trying to come to terms with the loss. Yesterday an 'antim yatra' was expected to take place, but had to be cancelled owing to heavy traffic. However, the antim 'darshan' of the director was open to all at Yash Chopra Studios in the morning. Yash Chopra's body was taken to the crematorium in an ambulance and not any decorated rath.

The cremation took place at the Pawan Hans Crematorium in Vile Parle, Mumbai and was attended by Yash Chopra's family members - sons Aditya Chopra, Uday Chopra and wife Pamela Chopra.

To avoid traffic, the family had kept the gates open for Yash chopra's fans from 9 am for the final darshan.

Among biggies who turned up at the studio included Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Shahrukh Khan, Vidya Balan, Shahid with father Pankaj Kapoor and mother Supriya Pathak, Parineeti Chopra, Sridevi with husband Boney Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Kajol with mother Tanuja and sister Tannisha, Tabu, Kabir Khan with wife Mini, Prem Chopra, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Vipul Shah, Abbas Mastan, Ramesh Sippy, Gulzar, Subhash Ghai, Shyam Benegal, Saroj Khan, David Dhawan, Resul Pukkotty, Imran Khan and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor, son Ranbir, Randhir Kapoor, Archana Puran Singh and husband Parmeet Sethi, Punit Malhotra and Varun Dhawan were also seen offering tributes to the 'King of Romance'.