Renowned Marathi film critic Sudhir Nandgaonkar passed away on 1st January in Bombay at the age of 84. He had been suffering from an illness since a long time.
Sudhir Nandgaonkar started the film society movement in Bombay when he launched Prabhat Chitrapat Mandal in the late 1980s. He hosted two film festivals in Bombay.