Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan offers last respects to Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma

The santoor legend was still performing and was scheduled to perform in Bhopal next week. He was also dealing with kidney problems. "In the morning, he had a heart attack... He was active and was scheduled to perform in Bhopal the following week. He was on dialysis on a regular basis yet remained active "according to a family source Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, a Padma Vibhushan recipient, was born in Jammu in 1938 and is credited with being the first artist to perform Indian classical music on the santoor, a Jammu and Kashmir folk instrument.