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Romantic actor Rishi Kapoor passes away

by Raju Vernekar
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IT Correspondent
Mumbai, April 30

Bollywood actor, producer and director Rishi Kapoor passed away, at Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in South Mumbai on Wednesday morning. He was 67 and is survived by actress wife Neetu, actor son Ranbir and daughter Riddhima Kapoor Sahani.
 He was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday and breathed his last on early Thursday morning. He died from complications of bone marrow cancer. In 2018, he was diagnosed with cancer for the first time, following which he was in New York for nearly a year to undergo treatment. He returned to India in September 2019.
 At the time of filing this report, the actor’s last rites were to be performed at Chandanwadi Crematorium in Kalbadevi, in South Mumbai, where only 15 people were allowed to gather in view of COVID-19 by the BMC.
While Neetu and Ranbir and other bollywood personalities including Alia Bhatt, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor had reached the hospital, Kapoor’s daughter, Riddhima Kapoor Sahani was stuck in Delhi and had sought special permissions from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to travel to Mumbai from Delhi.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted to condole the demise of the Bollywood veteran. He wrote: ‘Multifaceted, endearing and lively..this was Rishi Kapoor ji.”. NCP leader Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, West Bengal Chief, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, IMPPA and a host of film and political personalities condoled the death.

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