Rishi Kapoor and his daughter Riddhima Kapoor Sahni.
Riddhima Kapoor Sahani couldn’t spend Rishi Kapoor’s last few days before his death with him in Mumbai due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
Riddhima Kapoor Sahni opened up about her father, actor Rishi Kapoor’s death in a new interview. Rishi passed away in 2020 during the first lockdown after a battle with leukemia. Riddhima was in New Delhi at the time. She travelled to Mumbai after getting special permission and reached just in time for the funeral. Riddhima has now revealed that Rishi tried to call her two days before he was hospitalised but she missed the call. She said she still regrets not answering the call.
“He tried to call me two days before this happened. He gave me a missed call, I still have it on my phone. That was his last missed call to me and I thought… I wish I had taken that. After that, he couldn’t really respond or talk because he was in the hospital and I still have that missed call saved. I took a screenshot and I saved it. Because that was the last time he called me to actually talk to me. I called him after that but he couldn’t speak,” she told Galatta Plus in a new interview.
After his death, the family was badly trolled. Many wondered why they did not put up a sad front. Addressing the trolling, Riddhima said it was the ‘worst phase’ of their lives and added that people don’t know what they went through.
Rishi Kapoor died on April 30, 2020. The funeral was attended by only the family members due to the Covid-19 induced lockdown. Rishi’s son Ranbir Kapoor recently remembered him. Appearing on The Great Indian Kapil Show, Ranbir said, “Mujhe ek hi baar bohot zor ki pari thi! Diwali pooja at RK Studios. Papa bohot religious the. I think I was eight or nine years old. Toh main chappal pehenke andar chala gaya tha mandir mein. Toh mujhe dapli pari thi (He hit me only once, very hard! He was a religious man, and I had entered the temple premises without opening my shoes. So he had hit me on the head)!”
