Gully Boy rapper MC Tod Fod was 'extraordinary', Ankur Tewari remembers him

Gully Boy rapper Dharmesh Parmar aka MC Tod Fod passed away at the age of 24 due to a stroke. His close friend and musician Ankur Tewari opened up about the rapper to IndiaToday.in.

On February 20, Gully Boy rapper Dharmesh Parmar aka MC Tod Fod passed away at the age of 24, due to a sudden stroke. The tragic news left everyone in shock in the Bollywood industry. The Mumbai street rapper was one of the several artists who were called to be a part of Zoya Akhtar's film Gully Boy. He was a part of the hard-hitting song India 91 in the film. A close friend of Dharmesh, Ankur Tewari, who is a musician himself and has worked on several big projects including the title track of the recent release Gehraiyaan, spoke to IndiaToday.in exclusively and opened up about the rapper.

Speaking of his untimely death, Ankur said, "I had no idea he had any health problem, but when I spoke with a few friends I got to know that a few months back he was suffering from some health issues. I don't know much details, it was just recently I found out about this."

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Remembering Dharmesh fondly, Ankur said , "He was extraordinary and simple at the same time. He was definitely somebody who stood out amongst everyone and at the same time, he was so normal and easy that he would blend in with everyone. I don't think he had anyone who didn't like him, he would blend in all groups and all kinds of people. He would just dissolve with everyone very easily."

Music supervisor Ankur who worked with the rapper recalls his time working with Dharmesh, he states, "I knew him even before we did Gully Boy. I knew him a couple of years before shooting for the film, so it never felt like we were working. He was always full of ideas and always pitching. He believed in bettering his work. I remember someone who worked with him telling me this when they were recording that Dharmesh would constantly go back to him and say I can do it better, he would like to better his craft. He was so so good with words, it would just flow, his mind was always working. Extraordinary is the only word that comes to my mind when talking about him. We never thought of him as somebody we work with, we always thought of him as somebody who you like and are friends with.”

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Gully Boy actors Ranveer Singh and Siddharth Chaturvedi both took to their Instagram accounts to pay a tribute to the rapper. When asked Ankur how was his equation with the two actors and he said, "He gelled with everyone. Because of his nature and because he was so collaborative he would just become a part of the project. He was fearless in his expression and always well-intended. Soft-spoken, naive always had a smile on his face. He had a sense of calmness, he could be emotional yet always in control and calm which was very infectious."