Ranbir Kapoor misses Rishi Kapoor a lot, reveal Neetu Kapoor

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Actor Rishi Kapoor died in April 2020,about two years after his cancer diagnosis. In a new interview, his wife Neetu Kapoor remembered him and revealed how their son Ranbir Kapoor misses his father a lot. Last month, Ranbir tied the knot with actor Alia Bhatt in Mumbai. Neetu and Rishi got married in 1980 and had two kids--Riddhima Kapoor Sahni and actor Ranbir Kapoor. Rishi, one of the most celebrated Indian actors of his generation, was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2018 and went to New York for treatment. After a long battle with the illness, he died in April 2020, at the age of 67.

In an interview, Neetu said, "Ranbir misses him a lot. His mobile screensaver still has Rishi’s photo. There are days when I see tears in his eyes but he stays strong." She added, "Rishi had a larger than life persona and he is not the kind of person who can be forgotten. Every day I meet someone who has some story or an incident about him. I feel somehow, somewhere, he is still connected to me." Neetu is making her comeback to the screen as the judge on Dance Deewane Juniors, a children’s dance-based reality show. She will also be soon seen on screen for the first time in almost a decade. She is starring in Jug Jugg Jeeyo, which also features Varun Dhawan, Kiara Advani, and Anil Kapoor. Neetu was last on screen in the 2013 film Besharam, where she co-starred with Rishi and Ranbir.

Currently, Ranbir is gearing up for the release of Ayan Mukerji’s Brahmastra, the first film of a proposed fantasy trilogy. It marks his first on-screen collaboration with Alia Bhatt and also stars Amitabh Bachchan, Mouni Roy, Nagarjuna Akkineni and Dimple Kapadia.

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