Asif Basra, who starred in the web series Paatal Lok and the movie Kai Po Che, has died at age 53. He was found dead in a private compound in Dharamshala. SSP Kangra Vimukt Ranjan said a forensic team is on the scene and police are investigating the matter.
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta was one of the first in the industry to react to death. “It can’t be true … This is very, very sad,” he wrote.
Reports say that actor Asif Basra had been living in a rented house in McLeodganj for the past 5 years.
Asif was last seen in the second season of the Disney + Hotstar series Hostages. He also played a top executive at a media house on Amazon Prime’s Paatal Lok, which launched earlier this year. Asif has also been seen in such films as Jab We Met, Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai, Krrish 3, Ek Villain, and many others.
He also starred in foreign productions such as Quicksand and Outsourced, in addition to making a cameo appearance in One Night with the King.
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