Rishi kapoor death

When Ranbir Kapoor revealed ‘most precious gift’ dad Rishi Kapoor gave him in emotional note

Ranbir Kapoor wrote the foreword for Rishi Kapoor’s autobiography Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored.

Bollywood icon Rishi Kapoor is no more. The 67-year-old actor breathed his last on Thursday morning at the Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in Mumbai, after a long battle with illness.

True to his unfiltered nature, Rishi’s memoir Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored was a candid and entertaining account of his life. The book featured an emotional foreword written by his son and actor Ranbir Kapoor.

As I sit down to analyse my relationship with my father, I would say that the most precious gift he has given my sister Riddhima and me is that we can love our mother Unconditionally. He showed us by example that she was at the centre of all our lives and our home. With her as our bedrock, none of the ups and downs in our lives could really touch us,” he wrote in the foreword.

The second gift is that he has been a good husband to my mother,” Ranbir wrote. While Rishi had his ‘fair share of intense fights’ with wife Neetu Kapoor, he truly loved and immensely respected her, setting an example of a successful marriage for Ranbir and Riddhima.

Ranbir, who made his Bollywood debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya in 2007, was inspired by Rishi’s work ethic. “I saw his enthusiasm even at that age, after all those years in the industry. He had it in him to better his craft, go shopping for his costumes or examine every minute aspect. He is that kind of man; very detail-driven. This is something I deeply admire,” he wrote.

Though Rishi did not experiment too much in the first two decades of his career, he ‘worked hard to reinvent himself’ in his second innings, Ranbir said. Talking about their equation, he said that their relationship was ‘one of complete reverence’.