Bollywood lost a legend, Rishi Kapoor, to cancer on April 30, 2020. The actor's wife and Bollywood star Neetu Kapoor, who often remembers Rishi Ji, has now spoken about how difficult it was for her son Ranbir Kapoor and her to see him in his final days.
Neetu told a Bollywood website, "March 31 was when his last film, Sharmaji Namkeen released. April 13, 1979 was when we got engaged. April 13, 2020 was the last time he spoke to me. Ranbir and Alia, they got married on April 14, but the puja was on April 13. Rishi went on ventilator that day and after that there was no communication. For those two weeks, he was on the ventilator and there was no conversation and no communication."
She added, "There was no interaction – well, there was, he was looking at me, and I took an iPad with alphabet and I told him to point out what he wanted to say, but he couldn’t lift his finger. It was just Ranbir and me in the hospital, and to see him go through that was so tormenting. To see a man like him… he wanted to say so much, and he couldn’t express. I couldn’t see him like that.” She also said that having grown up together through a companionship of 40-45 years, it was difficult to get used to Rishi's absence.
Rishi Kapoor breathed his last in Mumbai on April 30 last year after a two-year battle with leukemia. Wife Neetu often takes to social media to express her pain of missing him.
(Source: Film Companion)