India, Oct. 25 -- Bollywood actor Satish Shah, who was known for his comic timing, died from kidney failure at a Mumbai hospital on Saturday.

He was 74.

Confirming his death, filmmaker Ashoke Pandit told NDTV: "With a heavy heart, I want to say that our friend and a very good actor, Satish Shah, died around 2:30 pm today due to kidney failure. "

Despite appearing in several Bollywood movies, Shah became a household name with his performance in several TV shows that marked the beginning of the small screen's jounrey in India.

He was known for his roles in the 1984 sitcom Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi directed by Kundan Shah and Manjul Sinha, where he played 55 different characters in 55 episodes and the character of Prakash in the television seri...