Veteran Actor Rishi Kapoor Dies At 67 Battling Cancer

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor breathed his last on April 30 at HN Reliance Hospital in Mumbai. He was 67 at the time of his death.

Amitabh Bachchan confirmed the news of Rishi Kapoor’s death by tweeting it on his Twitter handle as, “T 3517 – He’s GONE .. ! Rishi Kapoor .. gone .. just passed away .. I am destroyed !”

Yesterday, Rishi Kapoor’s elder brother Randhir Kapoor had confirmed to News18, “It’s true that he has been admitted to the hospital. He is in Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital. He was not keeping well and had some problem, so we admitted him early this morning.”

He was already undergoing treatment for cancer in US and had returned to India after that. Yesterday, his condition severed and he was admitted to the hospital in the morning time.

Earlier in February, he was again to the hospital for being diagnosed with an infection. He was first admitted to a hospital in Delhi where he was attending a family function. At the time, Kapoor had said that he was suffering from an "infection".

Rishi Kapoor was last seen in the web series The Body on Netflix. He also shot for a film in Delhi earlier this year. His famous works include Amar Akbar Anthony, Laila Majnu, Rafoo Chakkar, Sargam, Karz, Bol Radha Bol, Bobby, Chandani and others.