The pivotal scene in Mahesh Bhatt's 1984 tearjerker, Saraansh, with debutant Anupam Kher haggling with Customs officials to release his deceased son's ashes, won him the Filmfare Best Actor that year.


Alok Chatterjee, 68, has even written to Mumbai commissioner Rakesh Maria for help. Pic/Nimesh Dave 

For Alok Chatterjee, 68, there sits no reward. The retired traffic controller with Mumbai Airport has spent the last three months racing between a hospital and police station to claim the belongings of his only son, Captain Soumik Chatterjee. The 28-year-old pilot with Jet Airways was killed in a road accident on Western Express Highway in April this year.