During Shyam Benegal's funeral, Bollywood star Boman Irani said, "I became an actor, I just wish I had an opportunity to work with him, then one fine day he phoned me many many 35 years later and told me to do ‘Well Done Abba’. I don't know how I'm holding myself up now, but I cried that day because I knew the experience would never recur in my life. I've never cried when I left a movie set.