Farooq Sheikh impressed everyone with his first film "Garam Hawa"(1973) sharing screen presence with stalwart like Balraj Sahni.
Late seventies and eighties saw him in a parallel cinema which didn't have typical hindi films' ingredients but started a new stream and genre of films which belonged to non glamorous, talented actors like him,Nasiruddin Shah,Smitha Patil ,Shabana Azmi and few others.
He will be remembered for his roles in Shatranj ke khiladi, Bazaar, Chasme Buddoor,Noorie,Katha, Umrao Jaan.
As an actor he admitted once that he was not commercially viable as much as actors like Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh. His era was of small budget, meaningful and emerging off stream cinema which found equal acceptance with popular Bollywood style mega stars films . Later in his career few appearances in films, television and famous play "Tumhari Amrita" he kept winning accolades and appreciation from his fans.
One more shining actor first and a star of Hindi Cinema disappears.
