Days after the demise of singer Zubeen Garg, Bollywood actress-politician Kangana Ranaut remembered him with the poster of their film Gangster. The Bollywood film marked Kangana`s debut and the music of the film is remembered to date. On Thursday, Kangana took to her Instagram stories and remembered the legendary singer who lost his life during a scuba diving incident in Singapore.
Kangana pays tribute to Zubeen Garg
She first shared a picture of Zubeen Garg from his younger days and captioned it: “#Zubeenda.” She then shared a poster of the 2006 thriller Gangster, which marked her Bollywood debut, and added the song Ya Ali, sung by the late Assamese icon Zubeen Garg, as a tribute to him. “#zubeenda No one like you!,” she wrote as the caption.
It was on September 19, when singer Zubeen Garg passed away following a scuba diving accident in Singapore. He was rescued from the sea by the Singapore police and rushed to a nearby hospital where he was admitted to the ICU. Despite intensive care, doctors could not save him.
Everything that happened at Zubeen Garg`s funeral
His sister Palme Borthakur and music composer Rahul Gautam, a protégé of the singer, lit the pyre, amid gun salutes. They went around the pyre seven times as priests guided them, and all present at the site stood up. Zubeen`s wife, Garima Saikia Garg, was sitting on the side of the platform where his last rites were performed and was seen sobbing all through the rituals. She even brought their dogs to the funeral for Zubeen`s one last glimpse.
Vedic hymns were chanted by priests at the cremation site since early morning. A team of Assam police personnel were the pallbearers of the casket, carrying Zubeen`s body. A gun salute was given to Zubeen by the Assam Police personnel before his body was taken to the platform, where his last rites would be performed.
As the smoke from the flames flared up, slogans like `Zubeen, Zubeen` reverberated in the air, and people were seen singing his song `Mayabini Ratir buku`. After the tributes were paid to the popular singer, the Assam Police gave him the gun salute and sounded the bugle. A large number of people gathered around the cremation site, including those on the hills surrounding the place, and slogans like `Long Live Zubeen`, `Jai Zubeen da` reverberated in the area. People were seen singing a song `Mayabini Ratir buku`, which Garg had said many times that this should be sung at his funeral.
The mortal remains of Garg were taken to a platform and placed on the pyre amid chanting of Vedic hymns and blowing of conch shells. The funeral pyre has been constructed on the platform, covered in a white canopy and decorated with flowers all around it.
