{"id":41409,"date":"2026-08-25T18:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/25\/bollywood-bids-farewell-to-phool-aur-kaante-director-kuku-kohli\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:23:55","slug":"bollywood-bids-farewell-to-phool-aur-kaante-director-kuku-kohli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/25\/bollywood-bids-farewell-to-phool-aur-kaante-director-kuku-kohli\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood Bids Farewell to Phool Aur Kaante Director Kuku Kohli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>Renowned filmmaker Kuku Kohli has sadly passed away today at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai due to heart-related issues, as reported by sources. He was married to the well-known actress Aruna Irani.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli had been receiving treatment at the hospital, and more information regarding his health condition and the circumstances surrounding his death is currently awaited.<\/p>\n<p>Born Avtar Kohli, he directed a number of popular Hindi films, including &#8220;Phool Aur Kaante,&#8221; &#8220;Suhaag,&#8221; &#8220;Haqeeqat,&#8221; &#8220;Anari No. 1,&#8221; and &#8220;Yeh Dil Aashiqanaa.&#8221; He is particularly celebrated for &#8220;Phool Aur Kaante,&#8221; which marked the debut of actor Ajay Devgn as a leading man in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990, Kohli tied the knot with actress Aruna Irani. He was previously married to Rita Kohli, with whom he had two daughters: Pooja Kohli and filmmaker Karishma Kohli.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned filmmaker Kuku Kohli has sadly passed away today at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai due to heart-related issues, as reported by sources. He was married to the well-known actress Aruna Irani. Kohli had been receiving treatment at the hospital, and more information regarding his health condition and the circumstances surrounding his death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[54544,671,672,54545,514,674,1435,54546,1436,675],"class_list":["post-41409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bollywood","tag-aruna-irani","tag-death","tag-demise","tag-kuku-kohli","tag-news","tag-passed-away","tag-passes-away","tag-phool-aur-kaante","tag-rest-in-peace","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}