MUMBAI: Raj Kaushal, filmmaker and husband of actor-television personality Mandira Bedi, left this world leaving everyone in a state of shock. 

Late Raj Kaushal had shared a great bond with actor Ronit Roy. Ronit has recalled getting a call from his close friend. The actor said that Raj wanted him to play a 'very important role' in a web series, that of the 'mastermind'. Raj Kaushal, who directed films like Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi and Shaadi Ka Laddoo, featuring his wife Mandira Bedi, died on Wednesday morning due to a heart attack at the age of 49. The couple has two children, son Vir and daughter Tara. 

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During an interview with a leading daily, Ronit Roy said, "He told me that he wanted me to play a very important role in the series and he would need me for a brief period though in the first part. Maybe he had a plan of inducting me in the second part largely. Then, Raj also told me that he wanted me to play the mastermind in the show whose face is unmasked at the end of the first part." According to the daily, Raj had made the call to Ronit around mid-May. When asked if he shot for the show, Ronit said, "No, my shoot did not materialise. The makers, I think, were going back and forth on the modalities with Raj. And those days, we were also hit by the Tauktae cyclone toh woh reh gaya (it couldn't happen)." 

Raj started his career as a copywriter in 1989 and then worked as an assistant director with Mukul Anand. He eventually set up his own advertising-production company, Fuel, and went on to direct over 800 commercials. 

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CREDIT: HINDUSTAN TIMES