Noted film, theatre and television writer-director Imtiaz Patel breathed his last on 27th March in Bombay. He was 57 and is survived by his mother, wife, a son, a daughter and two brothers. He had contracted swine flu last year. After that, he tested positive for coronavirus, from which he had recovered. But post-recovery, his health was not steady. His condition deteriorated on 27th morning and he passed away the same evening. He was cremated the same night.
Imtiaz Patel had written a number of films, TV shows and stage-plays. After doing stage, he entered television writing with Ekta Kapoor’s Padosan. He wrote hundreds of episodes of Ekta Kapoor’s super-popular TV serial, Hum Paanch, and serials like Chamatkar, Professor Pyarelal and Kabhi Yeh Kabhi Woh. He had penned/co-penned the screenplay and/or dialogues for Kitne Door Kitne Paas, Haseena Maan Jaayegi, Yeh Hai Jalwa, Chalo Ishq Ladaaye and Jodi No. 1. He had also written the dialogues for Xcuse Me! and Raja Bhaiya. He had written and co-produced Smile Please and written, produced and directed CD Kand. Imtiaz Patel was also the writer and director of Gujarati film Gujju Rocks.