Updated On: 24 September, 2020 08:30 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Veteran actress Alka Kubal talks about her friendship with late actress Ashalata Wabgaonkar and performing her last rites in Satara.

Alka Kubal (Picture/Kubal's Instagram account); late Ashalata Wabgaonkar
Veteran actress Ashalata Wabgaonkar, who was shooting for her Marathi TV show Aai Mazi Kalubai, passed away aged 79 on September 22 after having contracted COVID-19. She had tested COVID-positive along with 20-plus members of the show, and died after a 4-day battle with her illness at a private hospital in Satara.
Now, as per a report published in Mumbai Mirror, Wabgaonkar's co-star on the show and her close friend, veteran actress Alka Kubal has shared that it was she and her husband who performed the actress's last rites in Satara. She told the publication, "We had known each other for over 35 years and did several projects together as mother and daughter, including Maherchi Sadi (1991), which was a milestone in both our careers. That bond extended beyond the screen to the extent that she would call my husband her son-in-law."