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The legendary radio host Ameen Sayani died of heart failure at the age of ninety-one. Tuesday night, he had a heart attack. He immediately went to Mumbai’s HN Reliance Hospital.
It is alleged that at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, he had a heart attack. He was given the go-ahead to be pronounced dead despite the hospital’s doctors’ best efforts to revive him. Ameen had been afflicted for some time with high blood pressure and other age-related illnesses. He also required a walker because of back problems.
He achieved huge popularity through his radio program ‘Geetmala’ which has gone down as a milestone in India’s radio landscape. His captivating voice and engaging style spelled a cast at the listeners cultivating fans across the country, and popularised the medium of radio which got a further boost in early 2000s as the dotcom bubble burst. His signature way of addressing listeners as “Behno aur Bhaiyo” (sisters and brothers) became instantly recognisable and widely imitated.
He produced a record number of 54,000 radio programmes and lent his voice to over 19,000 advertisements and jingles.
His voice has also been imitated in the song ‘Tamma Tamma Again’ from the Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan-starrer ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’.
Source:IANS
